“Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Death is a personal matter, arousing sorrow, despair, fervor, or dry-hearted philosophy. Funerals, on the other hand, are social functions. Imagine going… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He called his approach non-teleological thinking, or “is thinking.” The term non-teleological was coined by Steinbeck’s best friend, Edward F. Ricketts; and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I don’t know where being a servant came into disrepute. It is the refuge of a philosopher, the food of the lazy,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The last clear definite function of man—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man....For man, unlike… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Old Sam Hamilton saw this coming. He said there couldn’t be any more universal philosophers. The weight of knowledge is too great… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man.… — 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
![“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of…” quote by John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/84c/john-steinbeck-71_art_teaching-might-even-be-the-greatest-of-t_1738.jpg)
