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Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes

Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind’s eye through infinite time and the mind’s hand into boundless space Picture Quote #1

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I’m looking for a forty-hour day Picture Quote #1

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less Picture Quote #1

What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point Picture Quote #1

Cherish yesterday. dream tomorrow, live like crazy today!! Picture Quote #1

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress Picture Quote #1

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The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty Picture Quote #1

The modern university does not exist to teach alone... It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament... The university rests on the public will and on public appreciation Picture Quote #1

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail Picture Quote #1

Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon his freedom and a limitation of his right to make the most of himself in order that he may rise in the scale of the social and economic order in which he lives. The notion that all human beings born into this world enter at birth into a definite social and economic classification, in which classification they must remain permanently through life, is wholly false and fatal to a progressive civilization Picture Quote #1

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners Picture Quote #1

The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service Picture Quote #1

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Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be Picture Quote #1

Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there may be hope for the world. If immoral, there is not only no hope, but no prospect of anything but destruction of all that has been accomplished during the last 5,000 years Picture Quote #1

Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty Picture Quote #1

To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence Picture Quote #1

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Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind’s eye through infinite time and the mind’s hand into boundless space (Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes) The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I’m looking for a forty-hour day (Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes) An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less (Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes) What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point (Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes) Cherish yesterday. dream tomorrow, live like crazy today!! (Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes) Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress (Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes) The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty (Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes) The modern university does not exist to teach alone... It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament... The university rests on the public will and on public appreciation (Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes) Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail (Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes) Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon his freedom and a limitation of his right to make the most of himself in order that he may rise in the scale of the social and economic order in which he lives. The notion that all human beings born into this world enter at birth into a definite social and economic classification, in which classification they must remain permanently through life, is wholly false and fatal to a progressive civilization (Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes) There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners (Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes) The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service (Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes) Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be (Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes) Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there may be hope for the world. If immoral, there is not only no hope, but no prospect of anything but destruction of all that has been accomplished during the last 5,000 years (Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes) Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty (Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes) To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence (Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes)