John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the intellect of the nation, but will also purify its character.

Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.

Education has always been of significant importance to me and my family.

No one but people like me can understand the importance of education.

A well-rounded education has always been an issue close to my heart.

Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my ordinary daily self - If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

The important thing is to firmly fix our gaze on our own weaknesses, not run away from them, but to battle them head-on and establish a solid self that nothing can sway. Hardships forge and polish our lives, so that eventually they shine with brilliant fortune and benefit. If left in its raw, unpolished form, even the most magnificent gem will not sparkle. The same applies to our lives.

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.

Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.

Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both."

Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence

Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself.

Astrology is a fact, in most instances. But astrological aspects are but signs, symbols. No influence is of greater value or of greater help than the will of an individual.... Do not attempt to be guided by, but use the astrological influences as the means to meet or to overcome the faults and failures, or to minimize the faults and to magnify the virtues in self.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.