01UndatedScience is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing together the things we all know and putting them together so we can use them. This is creation and finds its analogy in Nature, where the elements are combined in certain ways to give us fruits or flowers or grain.Elbert Hubbard / quote ↗
02UndatedThe greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.Elbert Hubbard / quote ↗
03UndatedConstant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.Elbert Hubbard / quote ↗
04UndatedSo long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.Elbert Hubbard / quote ↗
05UndatedTwo-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.Elbert Hubbard / quote ↗
06UndatedIt does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.Elbert Hubbard / quote ↗
09UndatedThere is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.Elbert Hubbard / quote ↗
11UndatedThe greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.Elbert Hubbard / quote ↗
15UndatedAs a career the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through Hell.Elbert Hubbard / quote ↗
16UndatedThe difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands nor in the perfection of their bodies but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight with the blow to live an eternity in an hour.Elbert Hubbard / quote ↗
18UndatedA failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.Elbert Hubbard / quote ↗
19UndatedThe line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.Elbert Hubbard / quote ↗
20UndatedDon't lose faith in humanity: think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.Elbert Hubbard / quote ↗
21UndatedA friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.Elbert Hubbard / quote ↗
23UndatedEvery man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.Elbert Hubbard / quote ↗
Edsverb reading card◎MeditationsMarcus AureliusFree edition · US public domainMeric Casaubon translation (1634), later edited editionRelated reading on mind; this is an editorial connection, not the source of the saying.About this book ↗
Edsverb reading cardΠThe RepublicPlatoFree edition · US public domainBenjamin Jowett translationRelated reading on knowledge; this is an editorial connection, not the source of the saying.About this book ↗
Edsverb reading card☼The ProphetKahlil GibranFree edition · US public domain1923 English editionRelated reading on love and work; this is an editorial connection, not the source of the saying.About this book ↗