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John Steinbeck Quotes
«I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
artists, arts, Great Spirit, human mind, teaching
«It always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, aquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and selfinterest are the traits of sucess. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
admire, concomitant, concomitants, detest, detested, detesting, detests, egotism, generosity, greed, meanness, openness, seemed, sharpness, traits
«It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Action,
Choice,
Death and dying,
Living,
Pleasure,
Thought
| Keywords:
courses
«No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.»
«As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.»
«Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.»
«A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
coercion, fruitless, policing, safeguarded, Safeguarding, safeguards, trip
«I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bored, cynicism, destroyers, listless, named, plenty, rebellion, self-satisfaction, slothful, submerged, The Destroyers
«This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
destroys, exploring, freedom of religion, most-valuable, undirected