Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers]… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.... The face and body may be perfect, but if a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I’d think there are degrees of greatness,” Adam said. “I don’t think so,” said Samuel. “That would be like saying there is a little… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“You come back a changed man. Samuel, you don’t change him. He changes you. I can see the look of him in your face.”… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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