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John Lancaster Spalding - Means and ends of education (1895)

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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

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Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.

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However firmly thou holdest to thy opinions, if truth appears on the opposite side, throw down thy arms at once.

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The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

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The strong man is he who knows how and is able to become and be himself; the magnanimous man is he who, being strong, knows how and is able to issue forth from himself, as from a fortress, to guide, protect, encourage, and save others.

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If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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John Lancaster Spalding

John Lancaster Spalding
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Born: June 2, 1840
Died: August 25, 1916 (aged 76)
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