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Charles William Eliot Quotes


An American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869.
Charles William Eliot (March 20, 1834 – August 22, 1926) was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university. Eliot served the longest term as president in the university's history.

Here are some famous quotes by Charles William Eliot.

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

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One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

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All business proceeds on beliefs or judgment of probabilities and not on certainties.

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All business proceeds on beliefs on judgements of probabilities and not on certainties.

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The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.

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Be unselfish.... If you think of yourself only you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.