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Karl G. Maeser Quotes

1828–1901 Germany

Karl G. Maeser (January 16, 1828 – February 15, 1901) was a prominent Utah educator and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Germany
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Random Karl G. Maeser quote

10 quotes

Every human being is a world in miniature.

School and Fireside (1898)

Be yourself, but always your better self.

Youth demands recreation, and if it is not provided in high places, they will seek it in low places.

He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.

I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.

No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.

The Lord never does anything arbitrarily.

No righteous rules, however rigid, are too stringent for me; I will live above them.

Infidelity is consumption of the soul.

The fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom. This life is one great object lesson to practice on the principles of immortality and eternal life. Man grows with his higher aims. Let naught that is unholy enter here.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Karl G. Maeser (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.