John Lancaster Spalding Quote

It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently true and interesting, what shall appeal to the best minds a thousand years hence, as it appeals to them today,—this is the work of genius.


p. 33 - Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)


It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently...

It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently...

It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently...

It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently...