Charles William Eliot Quotes

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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

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

Charles William Eliot
In the modern world, the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition of social progress.

Charles William Eliot
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
The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

Charles William Eliot
Enter to grow in wisdom.
Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind.

Charles William Eliot
The scientific investigator wins pleasure or satisfaction where most men and women would find only vexation and futile effort.

Charles William Eliot
Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

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

Charles William Eliot
The pioneers of science, like the pioneers in exploration and colonization, must find their way through pathless regions.

Charles William Eliot
The medical investigator must often fish in troubled waters; and sometimes he cannot find again the promising fishing ground he has once visited, because unexpected fog prevents him from seeing the intersecting bearings of his desired ground.

Charles William Eliot