Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONProgress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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