Quotes by : John Lubbock

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we....

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to....

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through....

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the....

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

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow....