What passes for an original opinion is, generally, merely an original phrase. Old lamps for new - yes; but it is always… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts;… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Comfort Copy Share Image
I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Men Copy Share Image
On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Children Copy Share Image
... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould America Copy Share Image
You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The indiscreet questioner - and by indiscreet questions I mean questions which it is not conceivably a man's duty either to the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Some of the men and women who will not say in so many words the thing which is not, will deliberately give… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Giving Copy Share Image
... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Death Copy Share Image