Category Archives: Quotes

As every second post on this site is a quote. You’ll find a deep and broad variety of quotes under this category, which overlap with several other tags and categories. Many of the quotes are larded with links for deeper reading on the subject of the quote, or connections between the subject of the quotes and other people, things, or ideas. See the Taxonomies page for more about this category.

George Orwell on Commercial Speech

Posted on May 30, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.”

George Orwell

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

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Albert Einstein’s Self-Assessment

Posted on May 29, 2017 | Leave a comment

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with the problems longer.”

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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George Jean Nathan on the Shortcomings of Criticism

Posted on May 27, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Criticism is the art wherewith a critic tries to guess himself into a share of the author’s fame.”

George Jean Nathan

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

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Rotten Reviews: A Passage to India

Posted on May 27, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Spiritually it is lacking in insight.”

Blanche Watson, The World Tomorrow

Excerpted from: Bernard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.

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Rotten Reviews: The Recognitions

Posted on May 24, 2017 | Leave a comment

“The main fault of the novel is a complete lack of discipline… It is a pity that, in his first novel, Gaddis did not have stronger editorial guidance than is apparent in the book, for he can write very well, even though most of the time he just lets his pen run on.”

Kirkus Reviews

Excerpted from: Bernard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.

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Some Important Words for Our Time from George S. Counts

Posted on May 22, 2017 | Leave a comment

“To refuse to face the task of creating a vision of a future America immeasurably more just and noble and beautiful than the America of today is to evade the most crucial, difficult, and important educational task.”

George S. Counts (1889-1874) As Quoted in The Teacher and the Taught (1963)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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Rotten Reviews: Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Edward Gibbon

Posted on May 17, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Gibbon’s style is detestable; but is not the worst thing about him.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Complete Works 1853

Excerpted from: Bernard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.

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Why Teaching Is Difficult

Posted on May 15, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Most people would die rather than think; in fact, they do so.”

Bertrand Russell

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

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Rotten Reviews: Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (Goethe)

Posted on May 10, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Sheer nonsense.”

Francis Jeffrey, The Edinburgh Review

Excerpted from: Bernard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.

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Abigail Adams on How to Learn

Posted on May 8, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”

Abigail Adams (1744-1818)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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