Philosophy Quote by John Steinbeck — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.”

“Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.”

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”

“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”

“It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put their faith there and let the smaller securities take care of themselves. But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they know beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral units - because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back.”

“A sister is a dearest friend, a closest enemy, and an angel at the time of need.”

“It takes intelligence to recognize intelligence, or the lack of it.”

“#quote In the harshest conditions is when we know better the people around us. En las condiciones más duras es cuando conocemos mejor a las personas que nos rodean.”

“Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?”

“The stalker, meanwhile, stepped into the road. Didn’t even check for traffic. There wasn’t any, but something told me this was lucky for traffic rather than the stalker.”

“But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but i laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.”