Tryon Edwards > Quotes

“Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.”
― Tryon Edwards

“Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.”
― Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary Of Thoughts

“Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread. They may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.”
― Tyron Edwards

“If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. One who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.”
― Tryon Edwards

“Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.”
― Tryon Edwards

“Some of the best lessons we ever learn, we learn from our mistakes and failures. The error of the past is the success and wisdom of the future.”
― Tyron Edwards

“If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.”
― Tryon Edwards

“The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.”
― Tryon Edwards

“We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.”
― Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary Of Thoughts

“Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past – the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.”
― Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary Of Thoughts

“The prejudiced and obstinate man does not so much hold opinions, as his opinions hold him.”
― Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary Of Thoughts

“Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.”
― Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary Of Thoughts

“Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.”
― Tryon Edwards

“Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.”
― Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary Of Thoughts

“Any act often repeated soon forms a habit : and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. — At first it may be but as the spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.”
― Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary Of Thoughts

“We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.”
― Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary Of Thoughts

“Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.”
― Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary Of Thoughts