Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Half a truth is better than no politics.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
		Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. Gilbert K. Chesterton Vote on this Quote: Bad <---> Good
		Author Details: Type: Writer Quotes Category: English Writer Quotes Date of Birth: May 29, 1874 Date of Death: June 14, 1936 Nationality: English Amazon: Gilbert K. Chesterton on Amazon	Related Authors: Thomas Paine Rudyard Kipling Douglas Adams Joseph Addison John Ruskin Quentin Crisp Agatha Christie Alain de Botton
		Select Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotations: Half a truth is better than no politics. Gilbert K. Chesterton It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. Gilbert K. Chesterton Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are. Gilbert K. Chesterton A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying. Gilbert K. Chesterton The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. Gilbert K. Chesterton People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. Gilbert K. Chesterton Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. Gilbert K. Chesterton
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And when it rains on your... Art consists of limitation. The most... Art, like morality, consists in drawing... Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts... Being "contented" ought to mean in... Brave men are all vertebrates; they... Buddhism is not a creed, it... Chastity does not mean abstention from... Christianity has not been tried and... Coincidences are spiritual puns. Compromise used to mean that half... Courage is almost a contradiction in... Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid... Democracy means government by the uneducated, while... Do not free a camel of... Drink because you are happy, but... Education is simply the soul of... Education is the period during which... Experience which was once claimed by... Fable is more historical than fact... Half a truth is better than... Happiness is a mystery, like religion... Happy is he who still loves... How you think when you lose... I do not believe in a... I owe my success to having... I regard golf as an expensive... I was planning to go into... I would maintain that thanks are... I've searched all the parks in... If a thing is worth doing... If I can put one touch... If I had only one sermon... If you do not understand a... In matters of truth the fact... It is as healthy to enjoy... It is not funny that anything... It is the test of a... It isn't that they can't see... Journalism is popular, but it is... Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord... Large organization is loose organization. Nay... Let your religion be less of... Literature is a luxury; fiction is... Love means to love that which... Lying in bed would be an... Man does not live by soap... Man is an exception, whatever else... Man seems to be capable of... Marriage is an adventure, like going... Men always talk about the most... Men feel that cruelty to the... Music with dinner is an insult... My country, right or wrong' is... Never invoke the gods unless you... New roads; new ruts. No man who worships education has... Nothing is poetical if plain daylight... Once I planned to write a... One may understand the cosmos, but... One sees great things from the... People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. People who make history know nothing... Ritual will always mean throwing away something... Science in the modern world has... Some men never feel small, but... The aim of life is appreciation... The Bible tells us to love... The Christian ideal has not been... The cosmos is about the smallest... The family is the test of... The fatal metaphor of progress, which... The greenhorn is the ultimate victor... The honest poor can sometimes forget... The man who throws a bomb... The mere brute pleasure of reading... The most dangerous criminal now is... The object of opening the mind... The only defensible war is a... The only way of catching a... The only way to be sure... The ordinary scientific man is strictly a... The paradox of courage is that... The perplexity of life arises from... The poets have been mysteriously silent... The poor have sometimes objected to... The present condition of fame is... The purpose of Compulsory Education is... The simplification of anything is always sensational. The traveler sees what he sees... The trouble with always trying to... The true object of all human... The vulgar man is always the... The way to love anything is... The whole object of travel is... The whole order of things is... The word "good" has many meanings... Their is a road from the... There are no rules of architecture... There is a great deal of... There is but an inch of... There is no such thing on... There is nothing the matter with... Thieves respect property. They merely wish... Those thinkers who cannot believe in... To be clever enough to get... To love means loving the unlovable... Tolerance is the virtue of the... Tradition means giving votes to the... True contentment is a thing as... We are justified in enforcing good... We call a man a bigot... We make our friends; we make... What affects men sharply about a... What people call impartiality may simply mean... When it comes to life the... When we really worship anything, we... When we were children we were... White... is not a mere absence... With any recovery from morbidity there... Without education we are in a... Women prefer to talk in twos... You can never have a revolution... Youth is the period in which...

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