If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. Gilbert K. Chesterton badlythingworth Change image and share on social
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. Gilbert K. Chesterton educationinstructperiod Change image and share on social
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. Gilbert K. Chesterton callgoodgrandmother Change image and share on social
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. Gilbert K. Chesterton affectfamiliarfind Change image and share on social
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. Gilbert K. Chesterton bodydestroydifficult Change image and share on social
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. Gilbert K. Chesterton attackclifffall Change image and share on social
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations. Gilbert K. Chesterton associationessentialman Change image and share on social
Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt. Gilbert K. Chesterton buddhismcreeddoubt Change image and share on social
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. Gilbert K. Chesterton paraderainrainbow Change image and share on social
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. Gilbert K. Chesterton fatalgrowthidea Change image and share on social
