Best quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton on Man

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  • Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
    - Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
    - Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
    - Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
    - Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
    - Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
    - Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
    - Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
    - Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
    - Gilbert K. Chesterton