Charles William Eliot
Charles William Eliot
Charles William Eliotwas an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university. Eliot served until 1909, having the longest term as president in the university's history. He was a cousin of the Nobel Prize-winning poet T.S. Eliot...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth20 March 1834
CountryUnited States of America
Charles William Eliot quotes about
men thinking he-man
The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.
spiritual thinking finals
Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
reading opportunity thinking
If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.
children fields facts
In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.
real philosophy men
Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.
heart progress fields
When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.
work college world
You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world
leadership successful attention
There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.
mother gentleman acquisition
I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.
book reading library
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
hero industry
The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.
inspirational action realms
Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.
lonely messengers and-love
Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.
helping-others men ties-of-love
The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.