Charles William Eliot famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
-- Charles William Eliot

#Friendship #Happiness #Teacher
I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.
-- Charles William Eliot

#Summer #School #Years
Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
-- Charles William Eliot

#Spiritual #Thinking #Expansion
In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.
-- Charles William Eliot

#Children #Fields #Facts
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
-- Charles William Eliot

#Book #Constant
The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.
-- Charles William Eliot

#Hero
Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.
-- Charles William Eliot

#Inspirational #Action #Realms
Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.
-- Charles William Eliot

#Lonely #And Love #Messengers
The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.
-- Charles William Eliot

#Men #Thinking #He Man
There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.
-- Charles William Eliot

#Leadership #Successful #Attention
You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world
-- Charles William Eliot

#Work #College #World
When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.
-- Charles William Eliot

#Heart #Progress #Fields
The Library is the heart of the University.
-- Charles William Eliot

#Heart #Library #University
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
-- Charles William Eliot

#Business #Judgement #Belief
Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.
-- Charles William Eliot

#Philosophy #Real #Men
I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.
-- Charles William Eliot

#Mother #Gentleman #Acquisition
The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.
-- Charles William Eliot

#Men #Helping Others #Circles
The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.
-- Charles William Eliot

#Happiness #Way
The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
-- Charles William Eliot

#Education #Desire #Fruit
One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.
-- Charles William Eliot

#Education #Book #Class

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