A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
—John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Topics: Education
Don’t be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
—John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Topics: Love, Affection
Every one must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.
—John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Topics: Candor, Friendship, Cheerfulness
I cannot think but that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty.
—John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Topics: Teaching
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
—John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Topics: Vision, Motivational, Optimism, Creativity, Positive Attitudes, Motivation, Perspective
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
Topics: Faith
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
—John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Topics: Beauty
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
—John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Topics: Integrity, Questions
The world would be both better and brighter if we would dwell on the duty of happiness, as well as on the happiness of duty.
—John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Topics: Happiness
The whole value of solitude depends upon one’s self; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.
—John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Topics: Solitude
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
Topics: Learning
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
—John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Topics: Happiness
In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.
—John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Topics: Time Management, Time
When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
—John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Topics: Best, Excellence
Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
—John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.
—John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Topics: Perspective, Risk
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
—John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Topics: Ambition
To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.
—John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Topics: Ambition
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
—John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Topics: Character
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
—John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Topics: Stress, Meditation, Leisure, Rest
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system, work keeps it in health and order.
—John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Topics: Worry, Work
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
—John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Topics: Teachers, Teaching
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
Topics: Worry
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
—John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Topics: Idleness
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