“
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
— John Lubbock
No quotes are currently available.
JL
John Lubbock
anthropologist, politician, archaeologist, prehistorian, banker, statistician, biologist, zoologist, entomologist, botanist
1834 – 1913
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet, from 1865 until 1900, was an English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath. Lubbock worked in his family company as a banker but made significant contributions in archaeology, ethnography, and several branches of biology. He coined the terms "Palaeolithic" and "Neolithic" to denote the Old and New Stone Ages, respectively. He helped establish archaeology as a scientific discipline, and was influential in debates concerning evolutionary theory. He introduced the first law for the protection of the UK's archaeological and architectural heritage. He promoted the establishment of public libraries and was also a founding member of the X Club.
All Quotes by John Lubbock
“
The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.
— John Lubbock
“
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
— John Lubbock
“
What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.
— John Lubbock
“
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
— John Lubbock
“
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
— John Lubbock
“
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
— John Lubbock
“
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
— John Lubbock
“
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
— John Lubbock
“
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
— John Lubbock
“
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
— John Lubbock
“
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
— John Lubbock
“
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
— John Lubbock
“
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
— John Lubbock
“
When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
— John Lubbock
“
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
— John Lubbock
“
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
— John Lubbock
“
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
— John Lubbock