Creative Quotations from . . .
Robert Lynd
(1892-1970) born on Sep 26
US sociologist. "He, with wife Helen, applied cultural anthropology to study of modern Western city in "Middletown," 1929."
 
   
F
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

R
Knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts not to bother about.
A
Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
N
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
K
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
R: "In "Speakers Sourcebook I," by Eleanor Doan, 1960."
A: "In "Columbia Dictionary of Quotations," by Columbia University Press, 1994."
N: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
K: "In "Peter's Quotations," by Laurence J. Peter, 1977."



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