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Top 25 John Sterling Quotes (2025 Update)

John Sterling Quote: “Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.”

1. “Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.”

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John Sterling Quote: “The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.”

2. “The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.”

3. “Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.”

4. “Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.”

5. “There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “Commerce has made all winds her mistress.”

6. “Commerce has made all winds her mistress.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “Compliments are only lies in court clothes.”

7. “Compliments are only lies in court clothes.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “Man is a substance clad in shadows.”

8. “Man is a substance clad in shadows.”

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John Sterling Quote: “The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.”

9. “The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.”

10. “Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.”

11. “Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.”

12. “Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.”

13. “Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.”

14. “A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought, – whither it flows back again.”

15. “Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought, – whither it flows back again.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.”

16. “Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.”

17. “Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.”

18. “Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “Every man’s follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.”

19. “Every man’s follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.”

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John Sterling Quote: “Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.”

20. “Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.”

21. “An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “You just cant predict baseball.”

22. “You just cant predict baseball.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “I could honor Carmen Electra. I think she’s beautiful.”

23. “I could honor Carmen Electra. I think she’s beautiful.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.”

24. “Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “One dupe is as impossible as one twin.”

25. “One dupe is as impossible as one twin.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.”

26. “Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “Knowledge, or more expressively truth, – for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence, – truth is an ideal whole.”

27. “Knowledge, or more expressively truth, – for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence, – truth is an ideal whole.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.”

28. “Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.”

— John Sterling

John Sterling Quote: “Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.”

29. “Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.”

— John Sterling

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