24 quotes by Thomas Fuller

Thought and Reason
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
3.9 · 47 votes · 195 reads
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Art and Culture
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
4.9 · 34 votes · 108 reads
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Thought and Reason
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
4.5 · 34 votes · 75 reads
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Thought and Reason
It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.
3.8 · 9 votes · 152 reads
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Thought and Reason
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peas
3.2 · 15 votes · 86 reads
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Virtues
Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
3.9 · 52 votes · 36 reads
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Art and Culture
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the things you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a person's training beg
3.8 · 7 votes · 138 reads
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Virtues
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
4.0 · 33 votes · 112 reads
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Various
Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
5.0 · 30 votes · 12 reads
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Society
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
3.8 · 59 votes · 145 reads
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Various
The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying
4.9 · 59 votes · 48 reads
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Nature
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
3.2 · 17 votes · 187 reads
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Art and Culture
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
3.4 · 35 votes · 181 reads
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Virtues
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
3.6 · 36 votes · 122 reads
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Thought and Reason
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
3.6 · 34 votes · 131 reads
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Government and Politics
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
4.6 · 33 votes · 192 reads
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Feelings
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
3.0 · 29 votes · 87 reads
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Art and Culture
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
4.8 · 52 votes · 175 reads
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Various
We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.
3.2 · 57 votes · 157 reads
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