William Lyon Phelps Quotes

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• One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness.…
• At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.
• The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
• I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.
• A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.
• A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.
• One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
• The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may take refuge…
• If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it…
• Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier…
• Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.
• I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull. As I advance…
• The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting…
• In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
• Real happiness is not dependent on external things.
• Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness…
• The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.
• Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the…
• Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol; and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few have not deteriorated…
• Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.

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