Thinking Quotes by John Steinbeck

We think of strangers as stronger and better than we are.

— John Steinbeck

I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry…

— John Steinbeck

It is customary for the recipient of this award to offer personal or scholarly comment on the nature and the direction of…

— John Steinbeck

When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always…

— John Steinbeck

After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he…

— John Steinbeck

When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward…

— John Steinbeck

I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them…

— John Steinbeck

Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing…

— John Steinbeck

I think I love you, Cal." -Abra I'm not good." -Cal Because you're not good." -Abra

— John Steinbeck

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

— John Steinbeck

Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in…

— John Steinbeck

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions…

— John Steinbeck

The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a…

— John Steinbeck

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for…

— John Steinbeck

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions…

— John Steinbeck

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen. It's scary to think about. Point of reference…

— John Steinbeck

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no…

— 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 utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for…

— John Steinbeck

I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

— John Steinbeck

Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.

— 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

Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that…

— John Steinbeck

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

— John Steinbeck

Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is…

— John Steinbeck