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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with S >> Quotes By Sir John Lubbock |
| Quote #1: | "The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn." |
| Quote #2: | "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." |
| Quote #3: | "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under 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." |
| Quote #4: | "What we see depends mainly on what we look for." |
| Quote #5: | "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." |
| Quote #6: | "When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air." |
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