"Those people who think only of themselves, are……" — Nicholas Murray Butler
"Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be."
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25 Quotes by Nicholas Murray Butler
Nicholas Murray Butler has 25 quotes on this site.
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The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
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Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand…
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The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a…
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I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen,…
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The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and…
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The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms…
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The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and…
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Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.
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Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.'
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This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes…
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Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time…
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The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Wit is educated insolence.
— Aristotle
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be…
— Frank Abagnale
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
— Chinua Achebe
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Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
— David Bailey
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and…
— Russell Baker
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It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
— James A. Baldwin
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I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.
— John Banville
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I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college…
— Dave Barry
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The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and…
— Annie Besant
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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