Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know,… — 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
My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin'… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced that there is, no one has ever been able to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see… — 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)
