The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
ELBERT HUBBARDNo one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
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Anyone 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.
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do
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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
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