Tryon Edwards Quotes
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
If you would know anything thoroughly, teach it to others.
Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.
Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow.
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.
Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food.
The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves--our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, "I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction".
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
