There are books showing men how to succeed in everything; they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books.
タグ: self-improvement, books

"G.K. Chesterton"の他の名言

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
タグ: wit, mind, humor, books, attention
The only persons who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
タグ: parents, parenting, family, education, children
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.
タグ: learning, homeschooling, homeschool, education
That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
タグ: education
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
タグ: self-education, education
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