Quotes by William Lyon Phelps

William Lyon Phelps

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

Climbing

Life

Views

Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.

Accomplishment

Increase

Interest

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

Ocean

Son

Stars

Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness.

Lying

Men

Real

Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, of the lack and loss of animal delights.

Lying

Real

Wall

Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.

Honesty

Reputation

Would Be

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

Education

Order

Wall

I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.

Believe

College

Religious

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Attitude

Book

Happiness

I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form of hospitals, churches, public libraries, universities, parks, recreation grounds, art museums and theatres I wonder what on earth we should do without them.

Art

Generosity

Museums

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Accomplishment

Appreciate

Appreciation

Art

Art Is

Attitude

Beautiful

Believe

Book

Business

Children

Climbing

College

Dream

Education

Fine

Firsts

Generosity

Girl

Happiness

Healing

Honesty

Important Events

Increase

Inspirational

Interest

Jesus

Life

Love

Lying

Marriage

Men

Motivational

Museums

Ocean

Order

Parent

People

Real

Real Happiness

Religious

Reputation

Sacred Things

Son

Spring

Stars

Stories

Succeed

Sunset

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Quotes by William Lyon Phelps

William Lyon Phelps

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness.

Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form of hospitals, churches, public libraries, universities, parks, recreation grounds, art museums and theatres I wonder what on earth we should do without them.

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