Arnold J. ToynbeeThinkers

Acquiescence is bred by familiarity as easily as familiarity breeds contempt.

Adversity opens the door for spiritual salvation.

Affluence's penalty is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family.

Anxiety is, along with conscience, a thing ensuring that one will work hard, but it does not ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: First, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

The City is a trap when it outdistances man's walking powers.

Confidence is, in contrast to mistrust, a thing that makes social life a practical possibility. It compensates for the fact that no human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart.

Dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.

Education's aim should be to teach people to educate themselves.