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 HUBBARDA failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.
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Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
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Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody – benefiting humanity – and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.
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What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.
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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
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The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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