John Lubbock

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

#books #earth #ever #excellent #fields

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. ↗

— John Lubbock

#look #mainly #see

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth. ↗

— John Lubbock

#reading #travel #library

We profit little by books we do not enjoy. ↗

— John Lubbock

#reading #life

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety. ↗

— John Lubbock

#breaking #down #hear #nine #often

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

— John Lubbock

#like #practiced #thing #violin

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

#every #given #important #important thing #learn

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

— John Lubbock

#how #knows #last #learn #little

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

— John Lubbock

#ask #done #doubt #ever #good

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

— John Lubbock

#duty #evidence #judgment #our #sufficient