Remember that what you believe will depend very much upon what you are.
—Noah Porter
Topics: Belief, Beliefs
Christianity is more than history. It is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests or expresses a truth, which man needs assent to or to put into practice.
—Noah Porter
Topics: Christianity
No man can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. If I do not find in a book something which I am looking for, or am ready to receive, then the book is no book for me however much it may be for another man.
—Noah Porter
Topics: Books, Reading
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Erich Fromm German Social Philosopher
Ayn Rand Russian-born American Novelist
Ralph Waldo Emerson American Philosopher
Elbert Hubbard American Writer