"Be unselfish. That is the first and final……" — Charles William Eliot
"Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others."
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Charles William Eliot
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20 Quotes by Charles William Eliot
Charles William Eliot has 20 quotes on this site.
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The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are…
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I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an…
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Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.
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All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
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The Library is the heart of the University.
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When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of…
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You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world
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There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.
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In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to…
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
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The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.
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Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.
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More Cannot Develop Quotes
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The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual. This being the…
— B R Ambedkar
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Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as…
— Alice Miller
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I believe that for permanent survival, man must balance science with other qualities of life, qualities of body and spirit…
— Charles Lindbergh
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We cannot develop and print a memory.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together…
— Peter Farb
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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound,…
— C.S. Lewis
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Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on…
— C.S. Lewis
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What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please…
— Elif Safak
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How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is…
— Swami Vivekananda
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We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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