Top 25 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton of 1328 - Page 10

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Inspirational, Funny, Travel

All Things Considered (1908) "On Running after one's Hat"

There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Simple, Doe, Way

I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Cities, Parks, Committees

America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Country, America, Creeds

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education, Saint, Speak

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Rocks, Moss, Rolling

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Church, World, Grows

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men, Sublime, Secret

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men, Mercy, Paradox

Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Clever, Stupid, Men

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mean, Class, Giving

Orthodoxy ch. 4 (1908)

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men, Mad, Logic

"Leo Tolstoy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Birthday, Book, Writing

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Inspirational, Perfectionism, Not Perfect

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Soul, Pleasure, Worthy

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Thinking, Sin, Pessimism

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Encouragement, Heart, Tragedy

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Spiritual, Women, Long