John Quotes

The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general; liberty, so to speak, at large.

By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.

How many students ... were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in which learning was experienced by them?

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep.

Blackwater was smuggling weapons into Iraq.

How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity

Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.

There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.

Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.

Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.

O freedom, first delight of human kind!

Order is the greatest grace.

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.

Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.

Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.

Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.

The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.

The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you.

My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall.

A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

How to be happy: Ignore people who think they know more about you than you do.

I don't look at this as a religious based thing. To me this is energy based.

I don't really understsand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs

A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.

Story is the language of the heart.

We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.

cross that person off your invitation list.

Behavioral change is more important than individual product choices. They both have a role to play.

As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.