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Quotes from Education — Louis Sullivan

1856–1924 United States

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Truly we are face to face with great things.

Education (1902)

The greatest man of action is he who is the greatest, and a life-long, dreamer.

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He who knows naught of dreaming can, likewise, never attain the heights of power and possibility in persuading the mind to act.
He who dreams not creates not.

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Thus would I concentrate the powers of will.

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A democracy should not let its dreamers perish. They are its life, its guaranty against decay.

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High ideals make a people strong. … decay comes when ideals wane.

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I am of those who believe that gentleness is a greater, surer power than force, and that sympathy is a safer power by far than is intellect.

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The tyranny alike of church and state has been curbed, and true power is now known to reside where forever it must remain — in the people.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Louis Sullivan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.