Famous Quotes / John Jay Chapman
30 Quotations by John Jay Chapman
- 21. The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and ...
- 22. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
- 23. The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something el ...
- 24. The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under ...
- 25. The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
- 26. The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportio ...
- 27. There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.
- 28. We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically un ...
- 29. Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for ...
- 30. You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.