Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes

This was the penn'worth of his thought.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler
The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler
The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
Nicholas Murray Butler
To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Necessity does the work of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler
A degenerate nobleman or one that is proud of his birth is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.
Nicholas Murray Butler
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method—more daring than anything that the history of philosophy records—of Lobachevsky and Riemann, Gauss and Sylvester. Indeed, mathematics, the indispensable tool of the sciences, defying the senses to follow its splendid flights, is demonstrating today, as it never has been demonstrated before, the supremacy of the pure reason.
Nicholas Murray Butler
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Nicholas Murray Butler