John Lubbock Quotes
"A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work."
- John Lubbock
(Related: Work, Day, Worry)
"A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn."
- John Lubbock
(Related: Education, Man, Will)
"Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it."
- John Lubbock
(Related: Character, Will)
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."
- John Lubbock
"We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety."
- John Lubbock
(Related: People, Anxiety, Suffering, Worry)
"Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not."
- John Lubbock
(Related: Duty, Judgment)
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
- John Lubbock
(Related: Time, Lie, Clouds, Day, Idleness, Listening, Rest, Sky, Summer, Trees, Waste, Water)
"Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven."
- John Lubbock
(Related: Heaven)
"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn."
- John Lubbock
"When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace."
- John Lubbock
(Related: Peace, Result)
"Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin."
- John Lubbock
(Related: Happiness)
"If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done."
- John Lubbock
(Related: Doubt)