Vincent Massey Quotes
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.
Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".
Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.
The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.
It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.
The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.
We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.
Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.
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.
How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!
I have had what might be called a post graduate course in the most important subject for all Canadians - Canada itself.
In opening and conquering a country great and wild and rich - a country indeed not yet fully known or conquered - we have still to learn more about ourselves and each other.
The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.