Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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