Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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