Quotes from Elbert Hubbard

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

A form of self-delusion.

Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

Don't lose faith in humanity; think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear you will make one.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

Postponement: The father of failure.

There is no devil but fear.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell - joy consists in forgetting life.

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.

To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.