All Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes
- The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day. Change
- Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space. Astounding
- The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament...The university… Alone
- I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have… Achievement
- The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that… American
- The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This is what freedom… Arch
- The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely as if it… Almost Incredible
- Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail. Apt
- Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.' Buried
- This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging… All
- Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon… Achievement
- The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty. Buried
- Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance. Almighty
- Cherish yesterday. dream tomorrow, live like crazy today!! Cherish
- There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to… Character
- What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point. Broad
- The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service. Accomplishment
- Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be. Educated
- Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there may be hope… Accomplished
- The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method Analytical
- The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the history… Analytical
- Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. Achievement
- America is the best half-educated country in the world. America
- An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. Business
- Optimism is the foundation of courage. Courage