John Steinbeck Quotes

“in our time a beard is the one thing a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

topic:women

“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:women men strength

“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

topic:knowledge self others

“It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:knowledge belief

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’—that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that...”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:freedom choice language

“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any...”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:freedom fight

“It's a free country. Well, try to get some freedom to do. Fella says you're jus' as free as you got jack to pay for it.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

topic:freedom poverty money

“When you’re a child you’re the center of everything. Everything happens for you.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:self children

“Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.”

― John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday

topic:self world

“people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:self interest

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