Robert Lynd
Quotes by Robert Lynd
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In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence. One has to sit still like a mystic and wait.
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I am a confirmed believer in blessings in disguise. I prefer them undisguised when I myself happen to be the person blessed; in fact, I can scarcely recognize a blessing in disguise except when it is bestowed upon someone else.
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The days on which one has been most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.
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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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Betting and gambling would lose half their attractiveness, did they not deceive us with the fancy that there may be an element of personal merit in our winnings. Our reason may protest, but our self-love is credulous.
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It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are most human beings.
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Almost any game with any ball is a good game.
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The great pleasure of ignorance is the pleasure of asking questions. The man who has lost this pleasure or exchanged it for the pleasure of dogma, which is the pleasure of answering, is already beginning to stiffen.
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I always feel an optimist when I emerge from a tunnel.
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I foresee the time when human beings, having ceased to regard speed as a novelty, will lose much of their taste for it.
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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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To go through life without ever being converted to anything seems a mark of insensitiveness. The ideal world would be a world in which everybody was capable of conversion and in which at the same time the converts would admit the possibility that they might be mistaken.
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The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
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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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