List of Charles William Eliot Quotes

The Strikebreaker Is The Hero Of American Industry.

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.

When Blocked Or Defeated In An Enterprise I Had Much At Heart, I Always Turned Immediately To Another Field Of Work Where Progress Looked Possible, Biding My Time For A Chance To Resume The Obstructed Road.

I Recognize But One Mental Acquisition As A Necessary Part Of The Education Of A Lady Or Gentlemen, Namely, An Accurate And Refined Use Of The Mother Tongue.

Let Us Remember That The Times Which Future Generations Delight To Recall Are Not Those Of Ease And Prosperity, But Those Of Adversity Bravely Borne.

In Some Small Field Each Child Should Attain, Within The Limited Range Of Its Experience And Observation, The Power To Draw A Justly Limited Inference From Observed Facts.

All Business Proceeds On Beliefs, Or Judgments Of Probabilities, And Not On Certainties.

In The Modern World The Intelligence Of Public Opinion Is The One Indispensable Condition For Social Progress.

Truth And Right Are Above Utility In All Realms Of Thought And Action.

Philosophy Is The Thoughts Of Men About Human Thinking, Reasoning And Imagining, And The Real Values In Human Existence.

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.

You Know That It Is Only Through Work That You Can Achieve Anything, Either In College Or In The World