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Tryon Edwards Quotes
«Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| About:
Action,
Character,
Habit,
Thinking
| Keywords:
fixes, lead on
«To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| About:
Enthusiasm,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
easily, enthusiasm, interest, kindle, kindling, successfully, waken, wakened, wakening
«Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| About:
Age,
Health,
Temperament
| Keywords:
depend, depend upon, temperament, temperaments
«Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic»
«Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
accuracy, elements, inaccuracy, kin, statement
«The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| About:
Education,
Learning,
Thinking
| Keywords:
accumulation, accumulations, discipline, fill, furnish, furnished with, furnishing, powers, train
«Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| About:
Commitment,
Compromise
| Keywords:
compromise, ending, retaining, The Sacrifice
«Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| Keywords:
alter, commotion, disappointed, disappointment, doubtful, Human Events, miseries, restless, stir, unravel, unraveled, unravels
