G. K. Chesterton Quotes
1874 – 1936
English writer, critic and Christian apologist, author of the Father Brown mysteries and 'Orthodoxy'.
24 quotesAbout G. K. Chesterton on Wikipedia
“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.”
“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
“The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.”
“When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.”
“Briefly, you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.”
“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
“A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.”
“A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.”
“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
“What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.”
“The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.”
“Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.”
“Atheism is, I suppose, the supreme example of a simple faith.”
“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.”
