Top 22 Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes
#2. This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow.
Nicholas Murray Butler
#7. The world is divided into three kinds of people: A very small group that makes things happen; a somewhat larger group that watches things happen; and a great multitude that never knows what has happened.
Nicholas Murray Butler
#8. Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.
Nicholas Murray Butler
#9. 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
#11. Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.
Nicholas Murray Butler
#12. An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Nicholas Murray Butler
#13. The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This is what freedom means.
Nicholas Murray Butler
#14. 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
#15. The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds the poems passed beyond recall, are fixed on the printed page in a hundred tongues. They carry to a million eyes what once could reach but a hundred ears.
Nicholas Murray Butler
#16. 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
#17. Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.
Nicholas Murray Butler
#18. I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.
Nicholas Murray Butler
#19. 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
#20. The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.
Nicholas Murray Butler
#21. The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
