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John Jay Chapman Quotes



Quotes by John Jay Chapman - (7 quotes)

John Jay Chapman - From the Communication category:

Too much agreement kills the chat. (John Jay Chapman)

John Jay Chapman - From the Goodness category:

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We, too, are the victims of our own contemplation. (John Jay Chapman)

John Jay Chapman - From the Politics category:

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. (John Jay Chapman)

John Jay Chapman - From the Progress category:

All progress is experimental. (John Jay Chapman)

John Jay Chapman - From the Teaching category:

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. (John Jay Chapman)

John Jay Chapman - From the Truth category:

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind. (John Jay Chapman)

John Jay Chapman - From the Worry category:

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold. (John Jay Chapman)