Famous Thomas Arnold Quotations

"It was from an old friend who . thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'"

by Thomas Arnold

"My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make."

by Thomas Arnold

"No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind."

by Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett

"Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for."

by Thomas Arnold

"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given 'disease.' The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom."

by Dr. Thomas Arnold Mindell

"We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is."

by Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett

"You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive."

by Thomas Arnold Bennett

"Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament."

by Thomas Arnold