When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERYou can’t teach people anything. You can only draw out.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.
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We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.
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To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness, which is the joy of coming into the closest relationship with the Maker and Preserver of all things: begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.
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Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer.
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My purpose alone must be God’s purpose.
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If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.
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Believe. The promise of God are real. They are as real, as solid, yes infinitely more solid than this table which the materialist so thoroughly believes in. If you would only believe, O ye of little faith.
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
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When our thoughts – which bring actions – are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.
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Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
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I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.
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I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life – but there was no one to tell me.
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My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.
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There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.
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Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
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Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
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God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
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Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
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Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.
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Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.
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Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.
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It is simply service that measures success.
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There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
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Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.
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No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.
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