Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
"Frank Moore Colby" (1865–1925) was an United States/American educator and writer.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous educators! More Frank Moore Colby on Wikipedia.Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.
Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection.
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
In public we say the race is to the strongest; in private we know that a lopsided man runs the fastest along the little side-hills of success.
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
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