John Lancaster Spalding
John Lancaster Spalding
John Lancaster Spaldingwas an American author, poet, advocate for higher education, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908 and a co-founder of The Catholic University of America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth2 June 1840
CountryUnited States of America
sincerity depends livelihood
Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.
philosophy mind literature
The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow the noblest ideals: for the truths which science ignores and must ignore are precisely those which have the deepest bearing on life and conduct.
teacher sovereign reason
It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.
morning enthusiasm yearning
When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life's morning.
prejudice accepting being-true
Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.
way turns right-way
It is unpleasant to turn back, though it be to take the right way.
color space mind
The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.
school caring knowing
He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.
ignorance innocence virtue
The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
littles given chiefs
Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.
purpose and-love compulsion
In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
dull failing vain
If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.
children trifles
They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.
errors causes common
It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.