John Sterling famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
-- John Sterling

#Self #Intuition #Consciousness
Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.
-- John Sterling

#Giving #Receiving #Life Is
Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.
-- John Sterling

#Truth #Truth Is
Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright With joy the spirit moves and burns; So up to thee! O Fount of Light! Our light returns.
-- John Sterling

#Moving #Light #Joy
Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation--the realization of an idea by an act of the will.
-- John Sterling

#Men #Color #Ideas
Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.
-- John Sterling

#Faith #Art
Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.
-- John Sterling

#Beautiful #Sacrifice #Reality
Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.
-- John Sterling

#Men #Folly #Caricatures
Compliments are only lies in court clothes.
-- John Sterling

#Lying #Clothes #Compliment
Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.
-- John Sterling

#Fighting #Men #Law
Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.
-- John Sterling

#Poetry #Joy #Magic
Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.
-- John Sterling

#Flower #Past #Clothes
Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.
-- John Sterling

#Lakes #Water #Speech
Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.
-- John Sterling

#Hands #Arbitrary #Superstitions
An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.
-- John Sterling

#Truth #Patents #Truth Is
Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.
-- John Sterling

#Laughter #Self #Tears
Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.
-- John Sterling

#Education #Cutting #Modern
Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
-- John Sterling

#Dream #Thinking #Toil
Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
-- John Sterling

#Men #Color #Feelings
There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.
-- John Sterling

#Lying #Believe #Men
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
-- John Sterling

#Self #Denial #Worst
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
-- John Sterling

#Strong #Pain #Joy
The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.
-- John Sterling

#Men #Clients #Trouble
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
-- John Sterling

#Tyrants #World #Affection
Man is a substance clad in shadows.
-- John Sterling

#Men #Humanity #Shadow
Commerce has made all winds her mistress.
-- John Sterling

#Wind #Mistress #Made
One dupe is as impossible as one twin.
-- John Sterling

#Duplicity #Dupes #Impossible
A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.
-- John Sterling

#Believe #School #Men
Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.
-- John Sterling

#Elements #Action #Emotion

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