Top 30 John Lubbock Quotes and Sayings with Images

Top 30 John Lubbock Quotes and Sayings with Images

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Best John Lubbock Quotes

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the world. » John Lubbock

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught as that every child should be given the wish to learn. » John Lubbock

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being. » John Lubbock

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. » John Lubbock

Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for » John Lubbock

A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. » John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life

To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

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. » John Lubbock, The Use Of Life

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow. » John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty; for we ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others. » John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life

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. » John Lubbock

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

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. » John Lubbock

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. » John Lubbock

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not. » John Lubbock

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is wanting. » John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life

We profit little by books we do not enjoy. » John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life

If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done. » John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life

Don’t be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present. » Sir John Lubbock

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind. »  John Lubbock

The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it. » John Lubbock, Peace and Happiness

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. » John Lubbock, The Use Of Life

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.  » John Lubbock