More quotes by G.K. Chesterton

"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."
"There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable."
"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."
"Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."