Robert Staughton Lynd Quotes

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
Robert Staughton Lynd

Knowledge, Power, Knows

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
Robert Staughton Lynd

Birthday, Time, Remember

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.
Robert Staughton Lynd

Christmas, Simply, Throw

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert Staughton Lynd

Happy, Trying, Ways

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
Robert Staughton Lynd

Sometimes, Quiet, Half

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
Robert Staughton Lynd

Saying, Mean, Makes

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
Robert Staughton Lynd

Suffering, Glorious

There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.
Robert Staughton Lynd

Good, Someone, Nothing

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Robert Staughton Lynd

Dead, Genius, Helped

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Staughton Lynd

Friendship, Good, Long

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
Robert Staughton Lynd

Knowledge, Ignorance, Greatest

Almost any game with any ball is a good game.
Robert Staughton Lynd

Good, Game, Almost

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
Robert Staughton Lynd

History, Poetry, Left

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: September 26, 1892

Died: November 1, 1970

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