Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Green Hubbardwas an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Presently Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Among his many publications were the nine-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short publication A Message to Garcia. He and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth19 June 1859
CountryUnited States of America
Elbert Hubbard quotes about
What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.
If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines its spirit, you had better build well
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Men are only as great as they are kind.
To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.
Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
No explanation ever explains the necessity of making one.
One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.
Man is the only creature in the animal kingdom that sits in judgment on the work of the Creator and finds it bad - including himself and Nature