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> [The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-steffens/the-unknown-is-the-province-of-the-student-it-is-the-field-for-his/)

[Lincoln Steffens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-steffens/)

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## More by Lincoln Steffens

> [The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-steffens/the-typical-american-citizen-is-the-business-man-the-typical-business/)

[Lincoln Steffens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-steffens/)

> [The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-steffens/the-best-picture-has-not-yet-been-painted-the-greatest-poem-is-still/)

[Lincoln Steffens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-steffens/)

> [In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-steffens/in-science-probably-ninety-nine-percent-of-the-knowable-has-to-be/)

[Lincoln Steffens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-steffens/)

> [I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-steffens/i-never-heard-a-christian-sermon-preached-in-a-church/)

[Lincoln Steffens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-steffens/)

> [We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-steffens/we-need-some-great-failures-especially-we-ever-successful-americans/)

[Lincoln Steffens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-steffens/)

> [Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-steffens/boston-has-carried-the-practice-of-hypocrisy-to-the-n-th-degree-of/)

[Lincoln Steffens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-steffens/)

> [The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-steffens/the-commercial-spirit-is-the-spirit-of-profit-not-patriotism-of/)

[Lincoln Steffens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-steffens/)

> [The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-steffens/the-misgovernment-of-the-american-people-is-misgovernment-by-the/)

[Lincoln Steffens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-steffens/)

> [I am really puzzled to understand myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-steffens/i-am-really-puzzled-to-understand-myself/)

[Lincoln Steffens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-steffens/)

> [The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-steffens/the-longer-i-live-the-more-i-feel-that-the-individual-is-not-so-much/)

[Lincoln Steffens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-steffens/)

> [Somebody must take a chance. There are monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-steffens/somebody-must-take-a-chance-there-are-monkeys-who-became-men-and-the/)

[Lincoln Steffens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-steffens/)

> [Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-steffens/power-is-what-men-seek-and-any-group-that-gets-it-will-abuse-it/)

[Lincoln Steffens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-steffens/)

> [Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-steffens/power-is-what-men-seek-and-any-group-that-gets-it-will-abuse-it-it-is/)

[Lincoln Steffens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-steffens/)

> [And an educated mind is nothing but the God-given mind of a child after his parents' and his grandparents' generation have got through molding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-steffens/and-an-educated-mind-is-nothing-but-the-god-given-mind-of-a-child/)

[Lincoln Steffens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-steffens/)

> [It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-steffens/it-is-possible-to-get-an-education-at-a-university-it-has-been-done/)

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