Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.
ELBERT HUBBARDAnyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
-
-
If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
ELBERT HUBBARD -
What people need and what they want may be very different.
ELBERT HUBBARD -
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
ELBERT HUBBARD -
Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
ELBERT HUBBARD -
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
ELBERT HUBBARD -
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
ELBERT HUBBARD -
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
ELBERT HUBBARD -
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
ELBERT HUBBARD -
I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
ELBERT HUBBARD -
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
ELBERT HUBBARD -
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
ELBERT HUBBARD -
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
ELBERT HUBBARD -
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
ELBERT HUBBARD -
We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
ELBERT HUBBARD -
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
ELBERT HUBBARD






