John Jay Chapman Quotes

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• Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods…
• The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its…
• The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint.…
• The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows…
• If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature,…
• The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows…
• There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.
• Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It…
• A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these…
• A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men,…
• One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to…
• The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.
• A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
• Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.
• If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea,…
• The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the…
• The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
• The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.
• You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.
• There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.

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