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John Lubbock - From the Ability category:
Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Art category:
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Beauty category:
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Belief category:
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Books category:
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Books category:
We profit little by books we do not enjoy. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Character category:
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Children category:
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Colour category:
As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Desire category:
There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Doubt category:
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Drunkenness category:
How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Earth category:
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Education category:
If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Education category:
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Education category:
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Friendship category:
A cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around... (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Gender category:
Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Greatness category:
Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Happiness category:
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Happiness category:
Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Health category:
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Inspiration category:
To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Miracles category:
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Mistakes category:
Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Nature category:
Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Peace category:
When we have done our best, we should wait the results in peace. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Relaxation category:
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Seeing category:
What we see depends mainly on what we look for. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Solitude category:
The whole value of solitude depends upon one's self; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Standards category:
We often hear of bad weather, but in reality no weather is bad. It is all delightful, though in
different ways. Some weather may be bad for farmers or crops, but for man all kinds are
good. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Suffering category:
To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Time category:
In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Worry category:
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. (John Lubbock)
John Lubbock - From the Writing category:
If you have written a clever and conclusive, but scathing letter, keep it back till the next day, and it will very often never go at all. (John Lubbock)
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