John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

Don't expect your genius to be discovered; do what you must do because it gives you joy. Don't expect your love to be accepted. Love because it justifies your life.

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

You pursue what you love, and if you find beauty or truth, you go with that.

I don't think Brian Cox does 'The Wonders of the Solar System' because he believes the world would be a better place if people understood about the rings of Saturn; I just think he finds physics extremely interesting. It brings him joy, and he wants to spread the love. I feel the same about economics.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Follow your heart's truth with no need for personal gain other than the feeling produced when doing what you truly love.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

To make a living from doing something I love is fantastic. As long as people want to listen to me, I'll keep doing it. In fact, to tell you the truth, even if no one did want to listen to me, I'd still be doing it!

There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.

The truth is, people love to learn.

Don't pursue something because you 'want to be great.' Pursue something because it fascinates you, because the pursuit itself engages and compels you.

It's not research if you're really interested in what you're reading.

People can be happy in only one way, and that is if they are authentically themselves. Then the springs of happiness start flowing, they become more alive, they become a joy to see, a joy to be with; they are a song, they are a dance.

Memory, bosom-spring of joy.

Happiness is caused by things that happen around me, and circumstances will mar it; but joy flows right on through trouble; joy flows in the night as well as in the day; joy flows through persecution and opposition. It is an unceasing fountain bubbling up in the heart; a secret spring the world can't see and doesn't know anything about.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives

The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.

Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads?

Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.

Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.