"Life asks not merely what you can do;……" — Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled."

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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91 Quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick

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The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the…
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses...
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may…
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous…
We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give…
Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans…
...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio…
Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not…
Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation…

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