Top 35 John Sterling Quotes
#1. Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
Robert A. Heinlein
#2. An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.
John Sterling
#3. Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,
whither it flows back again.
John Sterling
#4. Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.
John Sterling
#5. Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.
John Sterling
#7. Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
John Sterling
#8. Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
John Sterling
#10. Knowledge, or more expressively truth,
for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,
truth is an ideal whole.
John Sterling
#11. Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.
John Sterling
#12. Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.
John Sterling
#13. A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.
John Sterling
#14. Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.
John Sterling
#15. Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.
John Sterling
#16. I think I'd be pretty star struck over John Mayer. I'm a big fan of his music, and I think he's great.
Sterling Knight
#17. Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright
With joy the spirit moves and burns;
So up to thee! O Fount of Light!
Our light returns.
John Sterling
#20. Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
John Sterling
#21. Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and other biases in the selection of the laureates.
John O'Keefe
#22. There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.
John Sterling
#23. Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.
John Sterling
#24. The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.
John Sterling
#25. Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.
John Sterling
#26. Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
John Sterling
#27. Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
John Sterling
#28. Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.
John Sterling
#29. I could honor Carmen Electra. I think she's beautiful.
John Sterling
#30. Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.
John Sterling
#31. Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.
John Sterling
#32. The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
John Sterling
#33. Wisdom's Pearl doth often dwell
Closed in Fancy's rainbow shell
John Sterling
#35. Seriously, did I miss something? Did John F. Kennedy walk into the Oval Office one day, only to find Fidel Castro lighting his Cohiba with the American flag while teabagging Jackie?
Sterling Archer
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