Quotes by Lincoln Steffens

Lincoln Steffens

And an educated mind is nothing but the God-given mind of a child after his parents’ and his grandparents’ generation have got through molding it. We can’t help teaching you; you will ask that of us; but we are prone to teach you what we know, and I am going, now and again, to warn you: Remember we really don’t know anything. Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don’t know. That is your playground, bare and graveled, safe and unbreakable.

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Teaching

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Art

Civilization

Flower

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

Boston

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Practice

Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell.

Bars

Care

Reality

Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

Chicago

Cities

Giving

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a – village, the “tough” among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

Chicago

Cities

Village

he thoughtless knowers will call you a red or a communist or a capitalist or some name that expresses their aversion to any mental activity. But somebody must take a chance. The monkeys did who became men, and the monkeys who didn’t are still jumping around in the trees making faces at us monkeys who did.

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Tree

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

Puzzled

I have been contending all my life, and always with God.

Contending

Has Beens

I have seen the future, and it works.

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Quotes by Lincoln Steffens

Lincoln Steffens

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell.

Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a – village, the “tough” among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

I have been contending all my life, and always with God.

I have seen the future, and it works.

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