Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Read Quote
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. Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Read Quote
The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time. Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Read Quote
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Read Quote
It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly. Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Read Quote
No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker’s ideal is the thin millionaires. Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Read Quote
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism. Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Read Quote
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience. Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Read Quote
Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us. Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Read Quote
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar. Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Read Quote
