He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. Elbert Hubbard More Quotes by Elbert Hubbard More Quotes From Elbert Hubbard Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him? Elbert Hubbard fog respect errors Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second, we declare it is heretical, infidelic and contrary to the Bible. Third, we say it is really a matter of no importance either one way or the other. Fourth, we aver that we have always upheld it and believed it. Elbert Hubbard four liberty struggle When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then sprites, fairies, dryads, naiads, witches, ghosts and goblins, for your imagination is reeling, riotous, drunk, afloat on the flotsam of superstition. What you know then doesn't count. You just believe, and the more your believe the more do you plume yourself that fear and faith are superior to science and seeing. Elbert Hubbard drunk evil believe What people need and what they want may be very different. Elbert Hubbard different people needs Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience. Elbert Hubbard essence inspirational knowledge History: gossip well told. Elbert Hubbard gossip wells history Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life. Elbert Hubbard men life thinking The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. Elbert Hubbard failure hope success The artist needs no religion beyond his work. Elbert Hubbard inspirational life art The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear. Elbert Hubbard swings doe people It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned. Elbert Hubbard differences men knowledge Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place. Elbert Hubbard self-control self laughing We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't. Elbert Hubbard forgiveness forgiving havens Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it Elbert Hubbard endeavour marriage literature Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions have pronounced the love of man for woman and woman for man an evil thing. . . . They have said that sickness was sent from God. . . . Now we deny it all, and again proclaim that these will bring you all the good there is: Health, Work, Study - Love! Elbert Hubbard and-love evil men Man, like Deity, creates in his own image. Elbert Hubbard deities self men The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel. Elbert Hubbard money men funny I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred. Elbert Hubbard dollars guests fifty Real life is in love, laughter, and work. Elbert Hubbard laughter real life Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so? Elbert Hubbard masterpiece creation men
