BOOKSIf minds are truly alive they will... by Harry Allen Overstreet | We Heart Quotes

BOOKSIf minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of its futures. To read books is one way of growing along with one’s fellows-in-growth.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

Other quotes by Harry Allen Overstreet

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

Action springs out of what we fundamentally desire.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become and the kind of society they build.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or creative spirit that it will set itself to develop that spirit by all means within its power.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

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