"One of the secrets of life is to……" — William Lyon Phelps
"One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute."
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William Lyon Phelps
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54 Quotes by William Lyon Phelps
William Lyon Phelps has 54 quotes on this site.
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One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the…
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At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.
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The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
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I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a…
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A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.
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A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a…
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The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a…
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If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man…
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Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more…
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Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.
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I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that…
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The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person…
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More Acute Quotes
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a…
— Lydia M. Child
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will…
— Leonard Cohen
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Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is…
— Sun Tzu
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We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of…
— Sigmund Freud
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship…
— Philip Yancey
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...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by…
— Hippocrates
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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held…
— Baruch Spinoza
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I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching,…
— Jennifer Worth
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Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape…
— George Meredith
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and…
— Florence Nightingale
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