Quotes from Vincent Massey

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.

The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".

Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can respect themselves and each other.

The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.