Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. — G. K. Chesterton
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. — G. K. Chesterton
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money — G. K. Chesterton
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine — G. K. Chesterton
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. — G. K. Chesterton
Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. — G. K. Chesterton
The business of progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of conservatives is — G. K. Chesterton
My country, right or wrong is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. — G. K. Chesterton
Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. — G. K. Chesterton
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. — G. K. Chesterton
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen — G. K. Chesterton
No man who worships education has got the best out of education… without a gentle contempt for — G. K. Chesterton
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. — G. K. Chesterton
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored. — G. K. Chesterton