Quotes by Nicholas Murray Butler

“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.”

“The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical methodmore daring than anything that the history of philosophy recordsof Lo...”

“A degenerate nobleman or one that is proud of his birth is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.”

“Necessity does the work of courage.”

“Optimism is the foundation of courage.”

“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.”

“To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.”

“The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.”

“Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.”

“This was the penn'worth of his thought.”

“A degenerate nobleman or one that is proud of his birth is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.”

“There was a time when philosophy might have been defined as the science of human activity, so all-comprehensive was it. The ambitious Greek who would attach his name to a philosophical system must ...”

“1. The human mind is so constructed that it must see every perception in a time-relation—in an order—and every perception of an object in a space-relation—as outside or beside our perceiving selves...”

“The United States is in sore need today of an aristocracy of intellect and service. Because such an aristocracy does not exist in the popular consciousness, we are bending the knee to the golden ca...”

“Many definitions have been given of the word education, but underlying them all is the conception that it denotes an attempt on the part of the adult members of a human society to shape the develop...”

“On the eve of that going out, we gather to participate in this stately and solemn service to Almighty God, in Whose name this University was founded and in Whose name it has labored from generation...”

“All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is...”

“Where the forms of civil, religious and political liberty still exist, they must be strengthened and given new power over the hearts as well as over the minds of men. Faith must not be lost, and co...”

“When you remember how few Jews there are in Italy and how relatively few there are in Germany, one must wonder at the violence and the bitterness of this perse cution. The number of Jews in Italy i...”

“Whether it be generally recognized or not, what we call the civilized world, which for seven hundred years has been moving steadily forward in the spirit of liberalism and toward liberalism s high ...”