Celia Green Quotes
- The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
- The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.
- Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.
- People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.
- The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.
- When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.
- Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to…
- Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt…
- I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.
- Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved…
- It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.
- A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together