Tryon Edwards
28 quotes.
Quotes by Tryon Edwards
- Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
- Avoid multiplicity of business; the man of one thing, is the man of success.
- Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
- Have something to say; say it; and stop when you’ve done.
- He is one of the noblest conquerors who carries on a successful warfare against his own appetites and passions, and has them under wise and full control.
- High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
- If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
- Imperfect knowledge is the parent of doubt: thorough and honest research dispels it.
- Mere knowledge is comparatively worthless unless digested into practical wisdom and common sense as applied to the affairs of life.
- Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.
- Never be so brief as to become obscure.
- Never borrow trouble. If the evil is not to come, it is useless, and so much waste; if it is to come, best keep all your strength to meet it.
- Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument: not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
- Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.
- Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.
- Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
- The best rules of rhetoric are, to speak intelligently; speak from the heart; have something to say; say it; and stop when you've done.
- The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulations of others.
- The prejudiced and obstinate man does not so much hold opinions, as his opinions hold him.
- There is often as much independence in not being led, as in not being driven.
- To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
- To possess money is very well; it may be a most valuable servant; to be possessed by it, is to be possessed by a devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.
- To rejoice in another’s prosperity, is to give content to your own lot; to mitigate another’s grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own.
- To rule one’s anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
- To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
- True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.
- We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
- Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.