Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Green Hubbardwas an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Presently Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Among his many publications were the nine-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short publication A Message to Garcia. He and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth19 June 1859
CountryUnited States of America
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful - must be bolstered up by force, fear and falsehood. Thus we always find slavery and organized religion going hand in hand.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault - resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content - but as long as you are part of the institution, do not condemn it. If you do, the first high wind that comes along will blow you away, and probably you will never know why.
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.