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Find important quotes and citations by the author Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
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An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerityQuote 2571
Half a truth is better than no politicsMore quotes on the topics: truth politics preference
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A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boyMore quotes on the topics: understanding memory tolerance childhood
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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily painsMore quotes on the topics: age mankind pain weakness disease desires
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There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only ''instinct'' I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as ''the sin of avarice"More quotes on the topics: honesty dishonor richness instinct religion greed sin
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A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against itMore quotes on the topics: death resistance opposition critism
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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loafMore quotes on the topics: tolerance satisfaction understanding mind
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly consideredMore quotes on the topics: adventure consideration errors judgment
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There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.More quotes on the topics: heart intelligence mind humanity thoughtfulness
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravityQuote 2562
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you winMore quotes on the topics: thoughts dependence victory weakness confidence time
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Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusableMore quotes on the topics: difference opinion evil perfection excuse defense
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affairQuote 2559
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teachingMore quotes on the topics: teaching weakness superficiality indifference conviction
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.Quote 2557
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonderMore quotes on the topics: gratitude thoughts happiness wonder reward
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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.More quotes on the topics: opportunity eat and drink happiness misery anger quarrel problems
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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problemMore quotes on the topics: solution problems understanding
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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign landMore quotes on the topics: traveling homeland knowledge attention interest
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with GodMore quotes on the topics: friendliness kindness happiness god
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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong thingsMore quotes on the topics: judgment opinion mistakes errors mind
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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of crueltyMore quotes on the topics: cruelty sin intelligence mind bullying
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Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinionsQuote 2549
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual haremMore quotes on the topics: changes virtue spirit marriage satisfaction variety
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Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who get the most out of lifeMore quotes on the topics: adventure victory success credulity superficiality
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Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his lifeMore quotes on the topics: childhood happiness love self-development soul saving endurance
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any starMore quotes on the topics: character understanding personality nature knowledge
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.More quotes on the topics: progress ideas development changes past
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its authorMore quotes on the topics: truth interest personality art success reality
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.More quotes on the topics: fame fashion presence admiration
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they actQuote 2540
The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are livingMore quotes on the topics: past knowledge presence history living understanding antecedents culture tradition
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Poets do not go mad, but chess players doQuote 2538
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact oppositeMore quotes on the topics: success attention respect advice decision opposition
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn thingsQuote 2536
The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they sometimes happenMore quotes on the topics: miracle reality realization
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.More quotes on the topics: youth age self-development hopelessness power knowledge soul inspiration
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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tallMore quotes on the topics: love opportunity appearance chance
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Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything elseQuote 2532
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frameMore quotes on the topics: art beauty value admiration
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to dieMore quotes on the topics: courage opposition desires living death
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argueMore quotes on the topics: discussion quarrel anger opinion critism
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The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.More quotes on the topics: perfection traveling time ensure
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There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a foolMore quotes on the topics: fools friendship opinion sympathy
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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of changeQuote 2526
The true object of all human life is playQuote 2525
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheeseMore quotes on the topics: eat and drink art mystery silence
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to knowMore quotes on the topics: education interest superficiality knowledge learning teaching
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.More quotes on the topics: love forgiveness faith hope hopelessness tolerance harmony
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Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.More quotes on the topics: music beauty admiration
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The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soulMore quotes on the topics: new year soul intentions future
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriouslyMore quotes on the topics: education danger authority respect seriousness
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same peopleMore quotes on the topics: neighbourhood hostility love harmony unity consideration
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not triedQuote 2517
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.More quotes on the topics: superficiality gratitude living attention
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbowMore quotes on the topics: optimism opportunity admiration nature
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?More quotes on the topics: christmas
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to warQuote 1573
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.More quotes on the topics: speech preference difference
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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.More quotes on the topics: experience adventure knowledge reality traveling world
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the cloudsMore quotes on the topics: rules imaginations liberty
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marblesQuote 1419
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frameQuote 1380
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at allQuote 1364
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.More quotes on the topics: realization losses love mind transience
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.More quotes on the topics: soul education society antecedents example
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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.More quotes on the topics: intelligence reason support intuition
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.Quote 330
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbourMore quotes on the topics: friendship hostility neighbourhood homeland