Bernard Iddings Bell

To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.

July 22, 2020 by Clever Quotes

“To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not … Read More

The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding of intelligence, the discouragement of efficiency, the stunting of character.

July 22, 2020 by Clever Quotes

“The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding of intelligence, the … Read More

The free man is not he who defies the rules … but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day’s experience.

July 22, 2020 by Clever Quotes

“The free man is not he who defies the rules … but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, … Read More

A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.

July 22, 2020 by Clever Quotes

“A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a … Read More

To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.

July 22, 2020 by Clever Quotes

“To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.” Bernard Iddings Bell

Bernard Iddings Bell

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