73 result(s) for Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes.
"Angels fly because they take themselves lightly."
"The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things."
"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."
"Right is right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it."
"The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him whether he is the surplus population, or if he is not, how he knows he is not."
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected."
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
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"The task of the artist is not to bend reality to his will, but to submit to its will."
"It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong."
"The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits."
"There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable."
"The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic; it was not a place where the best minds met to decide what was best. It was a place where the only people who mattered were the ones who had taken the full risk of their own worth."
"The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind."
"Everything has its value if its value is only to point out that it has none."
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die."
"We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty."
"The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before."
"There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less."
"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."
"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."
"It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."
"The world will never starve for want of wonders, but only for want of wonder."
"Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."
"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."
"The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
"The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it."
"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable."
"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly."
"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."
"We do not need to let down the opposite man; but we do need to lift up the common man."
"I still believe in liberalism, but the old-fashioned one, not the kind that beats you with a rubber truncheon."
"It is always the secure who are humble."
"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."
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"It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas."
"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."
"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions."
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people."
"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."
"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."
"I still believe in liberalism, but the liberal solution is that everyone should take care of themselves."
"The rich are rich because the poor are poor."
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."
"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."
"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."
"When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude."
"Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell."
"It's not that they can't see the solution. They can't see the problem."
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."
"I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."
"Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."
"The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul."
"Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it."
"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."
"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
"The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man."
"Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly."
"Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it."
"There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect."
"The can of tuna fish is the symbol by which I show how the rich may be damned."
"Government has become a committee of a checker of magnets."
"Love means loving the unlovable – or it is no virtue at all."
"Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity."
"The quixotic is through being rare; it is now simply carelessly ru."
"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground."
"The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."
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