More from Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  1. A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
  2. Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.
  3. This quotation actually comes from page 211 of Emile Cammaerts' book The Laughing Prophets (1937) in which he quotes Chesterton as having F…
  4. According to The American Chesterton Society, this quotation is actually a John F. Kennedy paraphrase of a passage from The Thing (1929), a…
  5. When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing - they believe in anything.
  6. Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
  7. The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
  8. Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

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