John Morley Quotes

“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.”

— John Morley

Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

— John Morley

Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking.

— John Morley

“The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.”

— John Morley

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

— John Morley

“A proverb is good sense brought to a point.”

— John Morley

“Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.”

— John Morley

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

— John Morley

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

— John Morley

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

— John Morley

“A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.”

— John Morley

“Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.”

— John Morley

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

— John Morley

He who hates vice hates men.

— John Morley