Quotes by Nicholas Murray Butler

Nicholas Murray Butler

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

America

Country

Education

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

Education

Encouraging

Funny

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

Failing

Profit

Succeed

Cherish yesterday. dream tomorrow, live like crazy today!!

Crazy

Dream

Yesterday

Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon his freedom and a limitation of his right to make the most of himself in order that he may rise in the scale of the social and economic order in which he lives. The notion that all human beings born into this world enter at birth into a definite social and economic classification, in which classification they must remain permanently through life, is wholly false and fatal to a progressive civilization.

Civilization

Life

Order

Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there may be hope for the world. If immoral, there is not only no hope, but no prospect of anything but destruction of all that has been accomplished during the last 5,000 years.

May

World

Years

I divide the world into three Classes – The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.

Achievement

Class

People

Many peoples tombstones should read, ‘Died at 30. Buried at 60.’

Buried

Should

Tombstone

Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind’s eye through infinite time and the mind’s hand into boundless space.

Eye

Hands

Science

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

Motivational

Positive

Success

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30th Birthday

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Achievement

America

Appreciation

Atheism

Broads

Buried

Change

Character

Christian

Civilization

Class

Corporations

Country

Courage

Crazy

Defying

Democracy

Desire

Dream

Ears

Education

Encouraging

Eye

Failing

Four

Freedom

Funny

Groups

Hands

Historical

Ideas

Individuality

Invention

Knowledge

Liberty

Life

Math

May

Mean

Men

Modern

Motivational

Needs

Newton

Nwo

Opportunity

Order

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Quotes by Nicholas Murray Butler

Nicholas Murray Butler

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

Cherish yesterday. dream tomorrow, live like crazy today!!

Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there may be hope for the world. If immoral, there is not only no hope, but no prospect of anything but destruction of all that has been accomplished during the last 5,000 years.

I divide the world into three Classes – The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.

Many peoples tombstones should read, ‘Died at 30. Buried at 60.’

Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind’s eye through infinite time and the mind’s hand into boundless space.

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

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