Quotes of Nicholas Murray Butler - somelinesforyou

“ Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ Science is a subordinate category. When science offers itself as the final stage or form of knowing, it is guilty of a false quantity, in that it puts the accent, which belongs elsewhere, upon the penultimate. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ America is the best half-educated country in the world. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ America is the best half-educated country in the world. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ America is the best half-educated country in the world. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ Perhaps we should comprehend these things better were it not for the persistence of the superstition that human beings habitually think. There is no more persistent superstition than this. Linnus helped it on to an undeserved permanence when he devised the name Homo sapiens for the highest species of the order primates… ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ Optimism is the foundation of courage. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ Perhaps we should comprehend these things better were it not for the persistence of the superstition that human beings habitually think. There is no more persistent superstition than this. Linnus helped it on to an undeserved permanence when he devised the name Homo sapiens for the highest species of the order primates… ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ Optimism is the foundation of courage. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ America is the best half-educated country in the world. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ America is the best half-educated country in the world. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler
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