Facts about Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Occup.Writer
FromUSA
Died1944

Summary

Katharine Fullerton Gerould was a famous Writer from USA.

Our collection contains 11 quotes who is written / told by Katharine.

11 Famous quotes by Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Small: There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought withou
"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"
Small: Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty
"Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones"
Small: Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar
"Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar"
Small: Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will
"Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them"
Small: Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us
"Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us"
Small: Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry
"Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry"
Small: Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it materialism, and a consequent inte
"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"
Small: Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life
"Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life"
Small: The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can
"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"
Small: All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing
"All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing"
Small: One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that th
"One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them"