Psychology Quotes by John Steinbeck

“His mind had no horizon—and his sympathy had no warp.”

— John Steinbeck

“She had learned fear now and her mind sniffed about like a rat looking for an escape.”

— John Steinbeck

“Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need-this is man.”

— John Steinbeck

Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind.

— John Steinbeck

“Why did his mind pick its way as delicately as a cat through cactus?”

— John Steinbeck

Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.

— John Steinbeck

“Who in his mind has not probe the dark water?”

— John Steinbeck

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

— John Steinbeck

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the…

— John Steinbeck

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

— John Steinbeck

“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.”

— John Steinbeck

“Some day, his mind said, that boy would know what things were in the books and what things were not.”

— John Steinbeck

“Jesus Christ, one person with their mind made up can shove a lot of folks aroun'! You win, Ma. Put away that…

— John Steinbeck

This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

— John Steinbeck

“Ideas are not dangerous unless they find seeding place in some earth more profound than the mind.”

— John Steinbeck

“He always tell what it will be like someday." "Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.”

— John Steinbeck

“Adam seemed clothed in a viscosity that slowed his movements and held his thoughts down. He saw the world through gray water.…

— John Steinbeck

“Regarding "thou mayest": And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in…

— John Steinbeck

“Coming out of sleep, I had the advantage of two worlds, the layered firmament of dream and the temporal fixtures of the…

— John Steinbeck

“Mind, I congratulate you. You jumped me to sex, translated it to aesthetics, and ended with sour grapes. How dishonest can I…

— John Steinbeck

“I believe one thing powerfully- that the only creative thing our species has is the individual, lonely mind... The group ungoverned by…

— John Steinbeck

I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing…

— John Steinbeck

I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love.…

— John Steinbeck

“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And…

— John Steinbeck

“Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and…

— John Steinbeck

“Hazel used his trick. "They got no starfish there?" "They got no ocean there" said Doc. "Oh!" said Hazel and he cast…

— John Steinbeck

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing…

— John Steinbeck

“Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone. You can feel it growing…

— 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

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

— John Steinbeck

Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or…

— John Steinbeck

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And…

— John Steinbeck

“I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique…

— John Steinbeck

“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man.…

— John Steinbeck

“Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone. You can feel it growing…

— John Steinbeck

“Minds me of a story they tell about Willy Feeley when he was a young fella. Willy was bashful, awful bashful. Well,…

— John Steinbeck

“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man.…

— John Steinbeck

“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

A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers…

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck