Quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.
- Elbert Hubbard
Fear clogs; Faith liberates.
- Elbert Hubbard
Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
- Elbert Hubbard
Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token
- Elbert Hubbard
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
- Elbert Hubbard
Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.
- Elbert Hubbard
If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
- Elbert Hubbard
Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?
- Elbert Hubbard
Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.
- Elbert Hubbard
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.
- Elbert Hubbard
The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.
- Elbert Hubbard
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
- Elbert Hubbard