James Truslow Adams famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
-- James Truslow Adams

#Inspirational #Life #Positive
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
-- James Truslow Adams

#Wisdom #Peace #Faults
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
-- James Truslow Adams

#Worry #Care #Dare
It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.
-- James Truslow Adams

#Men #Soul #Vision
The American Dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been a dream of material plenty, though that has doubtlessly counted heavily. It has been a dream of being able to grow to fullest development as a man and woman, unhampered by the barriers which had slowly been erected in the older civilizations, unrepressed by social orders which had developed for the benefit of classes rather than for the simple human being of any and every class.
-- James Truslow Adams

#Dream #Simple #Men
The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.
-- James Truslow Adams

#Dream #Opportunity #Land
Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline
-- James Truslow Adams

#Discipline #Age #Aging
We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.
-- James Truslow Adams

#Wise #Men #Trying
Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it
-- James Truslow Adams

#Inspiration #Log Cabins #Cabins
Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.
-- James Truslow Adams

#Daughter #Stars #Teenage
Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.
-- James Truslow Adams

#Faith #Wisdom #Lying

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