Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. ”

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. ”

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. ”

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. ”

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. ”

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? ”

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. ”

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. ”

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. ”

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf. ”