William Temple Quotes & Sayings
17 most famous William Temple quotes and sayings (educator). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.”
“The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.”
“The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.”
“The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.”
“Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.”
“When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.”
“Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.”
“The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.”
“The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?”
“Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.”
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