English Quotes

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.