John Lancaster Spalding Thinking Quotations

It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently true and interesting, what shall appeal to the best minds a thousand years hence, as it appeals to them to-day, this is the work of genius.

If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.

As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.

To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.

Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.

The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.