Knows Quotes by John Steinbeck

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers]…

— John Steinbeck

I start out to write five days a week, and then it runs to six days and finally seven. Then, eventually, that…

— John Steinbeck

There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these…

— John Steinbeck

“That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis. ”

— John Steinbeck

Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or…

— John Steinbeck

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is…

— John Steinbeck

...to find where you are going, you must know where you are.

— John Steinbeck

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who,…

— John Steinbeck

No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him…

— John Steinbeck

There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the…

— John Steinbeck

The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.

— John Steinbeck

He was born in Bercy on the outskirts of Paris and trained in France, and while he knows a little Poodle-English, he…

— John Steinbeck

What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist…

— John Steinbeck

But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know…

— John Steinbeck

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

— John Steinbeck

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

— John Steinbeck

It is strange how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always…

— John Steinbeck

I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like…

— John Steinbeck

I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no…

— John Steinbeck

We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession…

— John Steinbeck

And you know what it is? San Francisco a golden handcuff with the key thrown away.

— John Steinbeck

When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience…

— John Steinbeck

A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination,…

— John Steinbeck

Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home.…

— John Steinbeck

It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.

— John Steinbeck

No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.

— John Steinbeck