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
men affectionate
Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.
good-friend men
A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.
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.