The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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