More quotes by G.K. Chesterton

"Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."
"A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them."
"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."
"I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller"
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."