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
Elbert Hubbard quotes about
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
A form of self-delusion.
What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.
A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
Pain is deeper than all thought; laughter is higher than all pain
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.
To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Men are only as great as they are kind.
To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.