Public education has not produced an educated public.
One would think it would be most unwise in a man to be afraid of a skeleton, since Nature has set curious and quite insuperable obstacles to his running away from it.
- Topic: Obstacles
More Quotes from G. K Chesterton
A good joke is the one ultimate and sacred thing which cannot be criticized.
There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all.
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
More on Obstacles
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.
Against all odds and despite all the obstacles, we are going to make it.
Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.
