Wisdom Quote by John Steinbeck Download Open image ““Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and change it for you to a kind of wisdom.”” — John Steinbeck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Wisdom
“Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and turn it into wisdom. His mind had no horizon - and his sympathy had no warp. He could talk to children, telling them very profound things so that they understood. He lived in a world of wonders, of excitement. He was concupiscent as a rabbit and gentle as hell. Everyone who… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“I would change the knowledge I have into wisdom, so that the things that are to happen will be changed into the best that… — Padraic Colum Copy Share Image
“DOCTOR. Exactly. One can make the insane believe anything, just because they are receptive to everything. LAURA.” — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“He realized the lesson was that science can take medicine only so far. Then it is helped tremendously if there is faith or belief… — Noah Gordon Copy Share Image
“Doc didn’t have a television but he could predict that sort of thing. He just didn’t need one. He could always tell what was on TV when he heard more than two people in a row say the same strange phrase in the same way. He knew that they had just seen it on television. A few weeks later everyone… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share
“What had not changed, though, was the heroic spirit of responsibility amid blood and failure. This struck me as the true image of a… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
“And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“A man of wisdom faces it all and makes his choices that actually can change a lot of things.” — Kateryna Kei Copy Share Image
“I have had too much experience of life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men and some of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I told a doctor once, "Doc, if you want to know what's inside of me, put down the x-ray and pick up my novel!” — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
“If I had just a little bit of wisdom I should walk the great path and fear only straying from it.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“Change is sometimes good, sometimes bad. The wisdom to know the difference is a formidable power indeed.” — Tanya Karen Gough 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
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
No judge can stop us from praying for our country and I pray that on May 6, millions of Americans will join me in… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
“Your mind has the intellect to lift the world, your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
If I meet a wise person, I think, 'Yes, tell me more about parenting, about marriage, about how to stay in love. Tell me… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image