No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that… — 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 than to-day, may think that if culture is a good thing we shall infallibly be found to have more of it that we had a generation since; and that if we can be shown not to… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share
![“[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)