26 Quotes & Sayings By John Lubbock

John Lubbock is a British literary critic and historian. He was born in London on October 26, 1834 and died on September 4, 1911. He was educated at Eton College and at King's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1862. After this he held various academic posts at universities in England and Scotland, including the University of London, where he was Regius Professor of Modern History from 1881 to 1903 Read more

His son Sir John Lubbock became a famous English physicist.

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements...
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Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. John Lubbock
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What we do see depends mainly on what we look for.... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them. John Lubbock
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. John Lubbock
The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may...
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The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it. John Lubbock
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We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth. John Lubbock
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We profit little by books we do not enjoy. John Lubbock
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All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind. John Lubbock
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I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty; for we ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others. John Lubbock
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If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done. John Lubbock
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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not. John Lubbock
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If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow. John Lubbock
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A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. John Lubbock
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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is wanting. John Lubbock
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. John Lubbock
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When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. John Lubbock
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. John Lubbock
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What we see depends mainly on what we look for John Lubbock
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A cheerful friend is like a sunny day which sheds its brightness on all around. John Lubbock
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What we see depends mainly on what we look for. John Lubbock
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To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness. John Lubbock
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A poor woman from Manchester on being taken to the seaside is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody. John Lubbock
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work. John Lubbock
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. John Lubbock
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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven. John Lubbock
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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. John Lubbock