| Author |
Quotes |
| Ivan Illich | The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. |
| J m Roberts | Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on. |
| Jacques Barzun | The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so. |
| Jakob Burckhardt | In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole. |
| Jakob Burckhardt | The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims. |
| Jakob Burckhardt | History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another. |
| James Fenimore Cooper | Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. |
| James Fenimore Cooper | Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right. |
| James Fenimore Cooper | The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world. |
| James Fenimore Cooper | It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong. |
| James Henry Breasted | Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it. |
| James T Ellison | The real death of America will come when everyone is alike. |
| Jean de la Bruyere | The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored. |
| Jesse Bennett | The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty. |
| Johann Von Goethe | Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. |
| John Abbott | Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture. |
| John Ball | When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman? |
| John Buchan | You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. |
| John Jay Chapman | There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand. |
| John Jay Chapman | You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you. |
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