William Lyon Phelps Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american educator William Lyon Phelps on topics like life, happiest, service

  • I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

    — William Lyon Phelps on reading
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  • This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

    — William Lyon Phelps on respect
    8
  • One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

    — William Lyon Phelps on curiosity
    5
  • I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us.

    — William Lyon Phelps on pilgrims
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  • Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

    — William Lyon Phelps on books
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  • Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

    — William Lyon Phelps on boy
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  • The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy.

    The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

    — William Lyon Phelps on belief
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  • The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

    — William Lyon Phelps on life
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  • A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower;

    the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

    — William Lyon Phelps on base
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  • God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

    — William Lyon Phelps on christianity
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  • The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

    — William Lyon Phelps on respect
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  • The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts.

    Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.

    — William Lyon Phelps on happiness
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  • About William Lyon Phelps

    Name William Lyon Phelps
    Quotes 13 quotations
    Nationality American
    Profession Educator
    Birthday October 16
    About Professor of English at Yale University, 1892-1933.
    Top topics life, happiest, service, world, test
  • If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.

    — William Lyon Phelps on american
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