Vincent Massey Quotes

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".

The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.

The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.

We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.

I have had what might be called a post graduate course in the most important subject for all Canadians - Canada itself.

In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south!