John Lubbock
John Lubbock
The Right Honourable John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC FRS DCL LLD, known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 until 1900, was a banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth30 April 1834
blessing too-late late
Many a blessing has been recognized too late.
giving kind pleasure
A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
mean waste wasting-time
Rest is by no means a waste of time.
believe merit
There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.
mind needs crowds
A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.
happiness imperfect pleasure
False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
nature thinking tree
Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.
heart too-much discouraged
Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.
men lazy-man doe
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
education wise men
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
use faculty ability
Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them
children memories mistake
Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.
mind results circumstances
Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
world this-world depends
In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.