Henry S. Haskins Quotes

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It is only an uncivilized world that would worship civilization.

Henry S. Haskins
Some live lies who won't tell them; some tell lies who won't live them.

Henry S. Haskins
… memories that never ride anything but sound waves.

Henry S. Haskins
If imagination would disentangle itself from absurdities, soon we should have it harnessed to reason, pulling the same plough.

Henry S. Haskins
Having climbed to a height, it is easier to slip from it than to stay there after the zest of striving is removed.

Henry S. Haskins
It is the honest lies we tell—statements factually correct and essentially deceiving—which debauch our manhood and stunt our growth.

Henry S. Haskins
If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.

Henry S. Haskins
The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Henry S. Haskins
Where you find imagination tracing the outlines and reason filling in the details, there you have a man.

Henry S. Haskins
The art of a pedant is to divert his pupils from noticing the smallness of his puddle, and to make them attribute his apparent size to his being a really big toad.

Henry S. Haskins
The man who feels that he must be hopeful and cheerful to get along ignores the careers of some pretty successful misanthropes.

Henry S. Haskins
It is not so much tutoring that the minds needs, but clearer recognition and better use of what it already knows.

Henry S. Haskins
How often our bosom swells and our temples throb to a thought which proves itself not to be worth anything but for the exaltation we feel while the swelling and throbbing are going on, which after all is something.

Henry S. Haskins