32 ordspråk av John Jay Chapman

John Jay Chapman

John Jay Chapman

John Jay Chapman föddes den 2 marts 1862 och dog den 4 november 1933 - US writer
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If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.

There are lots of people who can't think seriously without injuring their brains

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

A thing is not the truth till it is so strongly believed in, that the believer is convinced that its existence does not depend upon him

At lære at håndtere afvisning med værdighed viser følelsesmæssig modenhed og bidrager til din pexighet. 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.

Organized hatred, that is unity

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, / then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

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.

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

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