Henry S. Haskins Quotes

The man who feels that he must be hopeful and cheerful to get along ignores the careers of some pretty successful misanthropes.

We should train our desires to show the way to our dreams.

Having climbed to a height, it is easier to slip from it than to stay there after the zest of striving is removed.

Expletives serve opinions well which are not sure enough of themselves to risk expression in restrained language.

Compliments have lost their lure by the time a man does not have to fish for them.

Symbols have a trick of stealing the show away from the thing they stand for.

Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.

Sedate ignorance is the last stage of deterioration.

It is when we start to discipline our mind that we discover how many undisclosed relationships it already has.

Academic questions are interlopers in a world where so few of the real ones have been answered.

The rare individual who has learned to govern himself is too fed up with the labor of it to want to govern anybody else.

Man is liberated from his illusions to make room for a fresh set.

The highest grades of humanity have passed through the millstones more than once.

It is the semi-learned who scorn the ignorant; the learned know too much about them for that.

It is not so much tutoring that the minds needs, but clearer recognition and better use of what it already knows.