John Sterling Quotes


"Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness."
- John Sterling
(Related: Intelligence, Instinct, Self)

"Man is a substance clad in shadows."
- John Sterling
(Related: Man, Shadows)

"Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords."
- John Sterling
(Related: World)

"Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one."
- John Sterling
(Related: Life, Consciousness, Joy, Pain)

"The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that."
- John Sterling
(Related: Education, Self)

"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
(Related: Lie, Lies, Man, Will)

"Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it."
- John Sterling
(Related: Dream, Hope, Will)