Norman Douglas Biography | Inspiration Quotations | Motivation Quotes

Norman Douglas Motivational Quotations:

• “Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.”

• “It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.”

•  “The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.”

• “There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.”

•  “You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.”

• “Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.”

•  “The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.”

•  “Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.”

•  “Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.”

•  “A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.”

  

•  “They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.”

•  “What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?”

•  “You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.”

•  “To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.”

•  “The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.”

•  “Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.”