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Top 20 Charles William Eliot Quotes (2025 Update)

Charles William Eliot Quote: “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”

1. “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”

— Charles William Eliot

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Charles William Eliot Quote: “The Library is the heart of the University.”

2. “The Library is the heart of the University.”

— Charles William Eliot

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Charles William Eliot Quote: “I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.”

3. “I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.”

— Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot Quote: “One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.”

4. “One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.”

— Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot Quote: “The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.”

5. “The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.”

— Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot Quote: “Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.”

6. “Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.”

— Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot Quote: “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.”

7. “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.”

— Charles William Eliot

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Charles William Eliot Quote: “You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.”

8. “You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.”

— Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot Quote: “Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.”

9. “Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.”

— Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot Quote: “The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.”

10. “The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.”

— Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot Quote: “All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.”

11. “All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.”

— Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot Quote: “Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.”

12. “Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.”

— Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot Quote: “The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.”

13. “The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.”

— Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot Quote: “I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.”

14. “I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.”

— Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot Quote: “In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.”

15. “In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.”

— Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot Quote: “Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.”

16. “Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.”

— Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot Quote: “In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.”

17. “In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.”

— Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot Quote: “The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.”

18. “The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.”

— Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot Quote: “Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.”

19. “Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.”

— Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot Quote: “Human nature,” I continued, “has its limits. It is able to endure a certain degree of joy, sorrow, and pain, but becomes annihilated as soon as this measure is exceeded. The question, therefore, is, not whether a man is strong or weak, but whether he is able to endure the measure of his sufferings. The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.”

20. “Human nature,” I continued, “has its limits. It is able to endure a certain degree of joy, sorrow, and pain, but becomes annihilated as soon as this measure is exceeded. The question, therefore, is, not whether a man is strong or weak, but whether he is able to endure the measure of his sufferings. The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.”

— Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot Quote: “Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.”

21. “Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.”

— Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot Quote: “Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.”

22. “Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.”

— Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot Quote: “When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.”

23. “When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.”

— Charles William Eliot

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