Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes

I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.

Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.

The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service.

Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.

Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.

Cherish yesterday. dream tomorrow, live like crazy today!!

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.

To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.

This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.

The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.

Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.'

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method

What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point.

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This is what freedom means.

This was the penn'worth of his thought.

Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

A degenerate nobleman or one that is proud of his birth is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.