John Lubbock
John Lubbock
The Right Honourable John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC FRS DCL LLD, known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 until 1900, was a banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth30 April 1834
peace results wait
When we have done our best, we should wait the results in peace
happier highest however human inspire others
To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being
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Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.
happiness contribution
To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.
happiness life-happiness objectives
Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.
happiness people world
The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.
eye land inheritance
We are all great landed proprietors, if we only knew it. What we lack is not land, but the power to enjoy it. Moreover, this great inheritance has the additional advantage that it entails no labor, requires no management. The landlord has the trouble, but the landscape belongs to everyone who has eyes to see it.
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Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.
rain weather looks
It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.
happiness people would-be
It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.
taken sea delight
A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.
pain suffering possibility
To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.