Thinking Quotes by John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

— John Steinbeck

... every little boy thinks he invented sin.

— John Steinbeck

I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.

— John Steinbeck

“You're bound to get ideas if you go thinking' about stuff.”

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans

— John Steinbeck

But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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 there must have been some other girl printed somewhere in his heart, for he was a man of love and…

— John Steinbeck

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

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

“Do you believe that a man in need can call soundlessly to another?" "Perhaps, my lord. It has happened to me that…

— 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

“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 have starved and it isn't nearly as bad as is generally supposed. Four days and a half was my longest stretch.…

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

— John Steinbeck

'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,'…

— John Steinbeck

“I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— John Steinbeck

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For…

— John Steinbeck

I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with…

— 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