King Gillette Quotes

102 King Gillette Quotes

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You cannot evolve a system that will be compelling without destroying every incentive to ambition.
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We are all liable to make mistakes and accept continued errors of judgment as facts…
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It is hard to root out of the human mind those seeds of belief that have been a part of our education from childhood…
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If we were all content with the way our fathers and mothers believed, then we would not progress at all, and thinking and reasoning would become unfashionable.
King Gillette

Corporation is absorbing corporations, and the new machine is more perfect than all that have gone before.
King Gillette

School is preparatory to industry, and by every law of equity and economic law of progress should be an integral part thereof.
King Gillette

Material wealth is not divisible without loss. But knowledge is divisible to infinity, and suffers no loss; and the giver is made richer, for it returns to him increased a thousand-fold.
King Gillette

Knowledge is infinite in its power to make men happy, infinite in its possibilities to guard against the ills of mind and body, infinite in its justice, is the soul of truth and the essence of individuality that remains with us here and hereafter. It is the greatest asset of any nation and pays the largest dividends.
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The real purpose of the machine of industry is to supply the necessities of life, and those things and means necessary to our progress and happiness.
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A machine is not considered perfect unless it is stripped to the fewest parts…
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Improvement means to change to something better.
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No step has ever been made in the material progress of man, not one, except it first had birth as an idea in an individual brain.
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If individual minds should cease to give birth to ideas of improvement or discovery, the progress of man would cease.
King Gillette

The time has gone by when flowery language, honeyed speech, or kissing babies can be the bellwether to lead the business man’s and labor’s vote to the slaughter…
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Man is naturally honest and inherently progressive…
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Man is emotional, and quickly carried forward upon waves of popular excitement; and it is these great tidal waves of emotion that mark the revolutionary changes throughout history.
King Gillette

Would it not be a period of interest in the history of the world that would make the blood race through one’s veins with pleasure and excitement – a period in advance of all past periods and in advance of any period of the future, because it would mark a turning point in the history of man?
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It is the triumph of mind over matter and the birth of divinity in man.
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It is not a vision of the future, it is a vision of now.
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The dawn of a new era streams across the threshold and lights the pathway of the future.
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Enthusiasm is the foundation of power which centralizes force and destroys every barrier between itself and its purpose. It makes an army out of scattered parts.
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I didn’t know enough to quit. If I had been technically trained, I would have given up, or probably would never have begun. I was a dreamer, and in search of the gold at the foot of the rainbow. I dared where the wise ones feared to tread.
King Gillette



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