Elbert Hubbard Quotations | Page 5

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer's misguided attempt to meet his or her own needs. As we regard offenders from this point of view (regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what they have done or suffered), we will be in a position to forgive them.

Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions have pronounced the love of man for woman and woman for man an evil thing. . . . They have said that sickness was sent from God. . . . Now we deny it all, and again proclaim that these will bring you all the good there is: Health, Work, Study - Love!

Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

A form of self-delusion.

Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.

Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

Conformists die, but heretics live forever.