John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury Quotes

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Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Where the untrained eye will see nothing but mire and dirt, Science will often reveal exquisite possibilities.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
The Sea is outside time. A thousand, ten thousand, or a million years ago it must have looked just as it does now, and as it will ages hence.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
On low ground one may be in the clouds, but not above them. But as we look down from mountains and see the clouds floating far below us, we almost seem as if we were looking down on earth from one of the heavenly bodies.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
The richness of life is marvellous. Anyone who will sit down quietly on the grass and watch a little will be indeed surprised at the number and variety of living beings, everyone with a special history of its own, everyone offering endless problems of great interest.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Geography moreover acquires a new interest when we once realise that mountains are no mere accidents, but that for every mountain chain, for every peak and valley, there is a cause and an explanation.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
The love of Nature is a great gift, and if it is frozen or crushed out, the character can hardly fail to suffer from the loss.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
We are not the only tenants of our farms — that the fields and hedges, woods and waters, all around us, teem with a complex, rich, and interesting life.,..Nature will speak only to those who listen with love and sympathy.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
We often hear of bad weather, but in reality no weather is bad. It is all delightful, though in different ways. Some weather may be bad for farmers or crops, but for man all kinds are good. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To most of us, surely, Nature when sombre, or even gloomy, is soothing and consoling; when bright and beautiful, not only raises the spirits, but inspires and elevates our whole being

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury