The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
ELBERT HUBBARDWe find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
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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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The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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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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I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love…I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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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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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.
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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
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I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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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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We work to become, not to acquire.
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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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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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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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