41 Quotes by Katharine Fullerton Gerould

I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no subject is all-inclusive. But a method can plausibly be applied to anything within the field of consciousness.

The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.

The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.

Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious?

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement.