John Sterling quotes:
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There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.
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Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
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Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
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Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
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The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
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Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
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Man is a substance clad in shadows.
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I could honor Carmen Electra. I think she's beautiful.
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Compliments are only lies in court clothes.
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Commerce has made all winds her mistress.
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The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.
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Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.
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Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.
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Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.
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Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.
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One dupe is as impossible as one twin.
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A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.
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Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
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Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.
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Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.
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Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright With joy the spirit moves and burns; So up to thee! O Fount of Light! Our light returns.
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Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.
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Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.
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Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.
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Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation--the realization of an idea by an act of the will.
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You just cant predict baseball
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Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.
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An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.
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Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.
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Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.
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Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.