List of quotes from John Steinbeck
"If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away."
by John Steinbeck
"I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything."
by John Steinbeck
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world."
by John Steinbeck
"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
by John Steinbeck
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
by John Steinbeck
"I know three things will never be believed-the true, the probable, and the logical."
by John Steinbeck The Winter of our Discontent
"We find that after years of struggle we do not take a journey, but rather a journey takes us."
by John Steinbeck Travels with Charley
"In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love."
by John Steinbeck