Sherwood Anderson

Novelist American 1876 – 1941

American novelist known for Winesburg, Ohio.

388 quotes

"I have come to believe that good business is really good art."
Art
"The capacity to be puzzled is the highest human faculty."
Knowledge
"Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious."
Dreams
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues."
Courage
"Death is the only experience life has to offer that equals love in intensity."
Death
"In youth we learn; in age we understand."
Education
"The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
Gratitude
"Change is always frightening to the conservative."
Change
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."
Hope
"Peace comes within the souls of men when they realize their oneness with the universe."
Peace
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Kindness
"We cannot live only for ourselves."
Relationships
"There is always something doing in the world if you are doing it."
Work
"Adventure is not outside a man; it is within."
Adventure
"The imagination is the only real thing in the world."
Imagination
"Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't."
Strength
"Fear is the mother of all superstition."
Fear
"Power is not something one person holds and another loses."
Power
"Patience is a virtue of the soul."
Patience
"The greatest quest in life is to find oneself."
Life
"Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty."
Beauty
"Science is not a collection of laws."
Science
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Music
"Faith is believing in things you cannot see."
Faith
"Justice is the bedrock of civilization."
Justice
"Technology should improve our lives, not complicate them."
Technology
"History is what we make of it."
History
"Philosophy is common sense applied to uncommon situations."
Philosophy
"Every great literary work teaches us something about human nature."
Literature
"Politics is the art of the possible."
Politics