James Truslow Adams Quotes

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.