"The men who have had the most to……" — Joel Henry Hildebrand
"The men who have had the most to give to their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a man to be alone with himself."
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Joel Henry Hildebrand
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12 Quotes by Joel Henry Hildebrand
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Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon…
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The members of the department became like the Athenians who, according to the Apostle Paul, "spent their time in nothing…
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How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their…
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Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to…
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[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There…
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The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to…
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[About the demand of the Board of Regents of the University of California that professors sign non-Communist loyalty oaths or…
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[When questioned on his longevity] First of all, I selected my ancestors very wisely. ... They were long-lived, healthy people.…
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Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything…
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The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester.
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That there is no such thing as the scientific method, one might easily discover by asking several scientists to define…
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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