The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But every one has, in his day, been modern. And surely even modernity is a poor thing beside immortality.… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no subject is… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
![“[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.” quote by Katharine Fullerton Gerould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1d4/katharine-fullerton-gerould-13_comfort_science-has-challenged-the-super-eminenc_404393.jpg)
![“We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were invented for semi-imbeciles in Italian slums; or we send them to outdoor schools and give them prizes for sleeping.” quote by Katharine Fullerton Gerould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6d2/katharine-fullerton-gerould-13_children_we-put-young-children-into-kindergarten_670781.jpg)
