Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDaybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
-
-
Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
There are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON