James Truslow Adams Professions : WriterBorn : October 18, 1878Died : May 18, 1949 Browse All Authors Top 16 quotes by James Truslow Adams There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. James Truslow Adams positiveinspirationallife There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us. James Truslow Adams gossipwisdompeace The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. James Truslow Adams landdreamopportunity Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it James Truslow Adams log-cabinscabinsinspiration Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline James Truslow Adams agingdisciplineage The American Dream, that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been a dream of material plenty, though that has doubtlessly counted heavily. It has been a dream of being able to grow to fullest development as a man and woman, unhampered by the barriers which had slowly been erected in the older civilizations, unrepressed by social orders which had developed for the benefit of classes rather than for the simple human being of any and every class. James Truslow Adams simpledreammen We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before. James Truslow Adams wisdomwiselife The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry. James Truslow Adams careignoranceworry There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inlinkng of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living... In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution. James Truslow Adams confusedmenyears Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter. James Truslow Adams mother-daughterteenagestars It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body. James Truslow Adams visionsoulmen Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. James Truslow Adams wisdomfaithlying Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact. James Truslow Adams Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it. James Truslow Adams The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. James Truslow Adams There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us. James Truslow Adams restbestbadgood Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writerAll Authors
