Quotes by

John Lubbock

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summers 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

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. – 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

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. – John Lubbock

A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work. – John Lubbock

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. – 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

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth. – 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

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. – John Lubbock