Robert Staughton Lynd Quotes

• Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

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

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• 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.

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

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• Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

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

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• Almost any game with any ball is a good game.

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• Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

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• It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one’s own suffering.

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

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

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

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• Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

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• 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.

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Robert Staughton Lynd (14)

Birth:	26th September, 1892
Death:	1st November, 1970
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Professor, Sociologist

About

Robert Staughton Lynd was an American sociologist and professor at Columbia University, New York City. Robert and his wife Helen Lynd are best known for writing the groundbreaking "Middletown" studies of Muncie, Indiana - Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture and Middletown in Transition, which are classics of American sociology.

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