Robert Wilson Lynd Quotes
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The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same in every field of knowledge. Knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts not to bother about.
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It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
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W. B. Yeats has created, if not a new world, a new star. He is not a reporter of life as it is, to the extent that Shakespeare or Browning is. One is not quite certain that his kingdom is of the green earth. He is like a man who has seen the earth not directly but in a crystal.
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The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.
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Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.
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It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.
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A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.
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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
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We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.
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In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.
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This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.