Top 25 George R. Stewart Quotes (2024 Update)

George R. Stewart Quote: “Men go and come, but earth abides.”

1. “Men go and come, but earth abides.”

— George R. Stewart

George R. Stewart Quote: “It has never happened!” cannot be construed to mean, “It can never happen!” – as.”

2. “It has never happened!” cannot be construed to mean, “It can never happen!” – as.”

— George R. Stewart

George R. Stewart Quote: “You used to have the jokes about never fixing the roof until it rained. People were undoubtedly the same now, or worse. They might well wait until something happened that forced them to act; that something would almost certainly be unpleasant – most likely, serious. Yet.”

3. “You used to have the jokes about never fixing the roof until it rained. People were undoubtedly the same now, or worse. They might well wait until something happened that forced them to act; that something would almost certainly be unpleasant – most likely, serious. Yet.”

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George R. Stewart Quote: “Because I’ve never died, I am immortal.”

4. “Because I’ve never died, I am immortal.”

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George R. Stewart Quote: “He started to engage the gears, and then suddenly paused with a feeling of uneasiness. He did not regret leaving his own car, but still something worried him. In a moment he remembered. He went back to his old car, and took out the hammer. He carries it over to the station wagon and laid it at his feet. Then he drove out of the garage.”

5. “He started to engage the gears, and then suddenly paused with a feeling of uneasiness. He did not regret leaving his own car, but still something worried him. In a moment he remembered. He went back to his old car, and took out the hammer. He carries it over to the station wagon and laid it at his feet. Then he drove out of the garage.”

— George R. Stewart

George R. Stewart Quote: “Man has been growing more stupid for several thousand years; I myself shall waste no tears at his demise.”

6. “Man has been growing more stupid for several thousand years; I myself shall waste no tears at his demise.”

— George R. Stewart

George R. Stewart Quote: “It has never happened!” cannot be construed to mean, “It can never happen!” – as well say, “Because I have never broken my leg, my leg is unbreakable,” or “Because I’ve never died, I am immortal.”

7. “It has never happened!” cannot be construed to mean, “It can never happen!” – as well say, “Because I have never broken my leg, my leg is unbreakable,” or “Because I’ve never died, I am immortal.”

— George R. Stewart

George R. Stewart Quote: “As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one. During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.”

8. “As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one. During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.”

— George R. Stewart

George R. Stewart Quote: “The trouble you’re expecting never happens; it’s always something that sneaks up the other way.”

9. “The trouble you’re expecting never happens; it’s always something that sneaks up the other way.”

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George R. Stewart Quote: “The people who live in any generation do much, he realized, either to create or to solve the problems for the people who come in the generations later.”

10. “The people who live in any generation do much, he realized, either to create or to solve the problems for the people who come in the generations later.”

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George R. Stewart Quote: “The situation was much as if some profit-making organizations had grafted themselves upon the public-school system.”

11. “The situation was much as if some profit-making organizations had grafted themselves upon the public-school system.”

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George R. Stewart Quote: “During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.”

12. “During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.”

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George R. Stewart Quote: “There had been many definitions of Man; he would make another: “The noise-producing animal.” Now there was only the nearly imperceptible murmur of his own engine. He had no need to blow the horn. There were no back-firing trucks, no snorting trains, no pounding planes overhead. In the little towns no whistles blew or bells rang or radios blared or people talked. Even if it was the peace of death, still that was a kind of peace.”

13. “There had been many definitions of Man; he would make another: “The noise-producing animal.” Now there was only the nearly imperceptible murmur of his own engine. He had no need to blow the horn. There were no back-firing trucks, no snorting trains, no pounding planes overhead. In the little towns no whistles blew or bells rang or radios blared or people talked. Even if it was the peace of death, still that was a kind of peace.”

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George R. Stewart Quote: “Between the plan and the fulfillment stands always the frail barrier of a human life.”

14. “Between the plan and the fulfillment stands always the frail barrier of a human life.”

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George R. Stewart Quote: “It’s better,” he thought in words, remembering some bit of reading, “to have no opinion of God at all than to have one that is unworthy of Him.”

15. “It’s better,” he thought in words, remembering some bit of reading, “to have no opinion of God at all than to have one that is unworthy of Him.”

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George R. Stewart Quote: “Child of the Blessing, who sees not what is, but sees what is not, and seeing thus what is not, imagines also what may be.”

16. “Child of the Blessing, who sees not what is, but sees what is not, and seeing thus what is not, imagines also what may be.”

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George R. Stewart Quote: “It had been a great thing, in those Old Times, to be an American. You had been deeply conscious of being one of a great nation. It was no mere matter of pride, but also there went with it a profound sense of confidence and security in life, and a comradeship of millions.”

17. “It had been a great thing, in those Old Times, to be an American. You had been deeply conscious of being one of a great nation. It was no mere matter of pride, but also there went with it a profound sense of confidence and security in life, and a comradeship of millions.”

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George R. Stewart Quote: “As we must always remember, the most important freight that a road carries may be neither household goods, nor livestock, nor munitions of war – but ideas!”

18. “As we must always remember, the most important freight that a road carries may be neither household goods, nor livestock, nor munitions of war – but ideas!”

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George R. Stewart Quote: “Crusoe’s religious preoccupations seemed boring and rather silly.”

19. “Crusoe’s religious preoccupations seemed boring and rather silly.”

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George R. Stewart Quote: “Between the plan and the fulfillment lies always the hazard: heartbeat flutters, knife flashes, horse stumbles, cancer grows, more subtle foes invade.”

20. “Between the plan and the fulfillment lies always the hazard: heartbeat flutters, knife flashes, horse stumbles, cancer grows, more subtle foes invade.”

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George R. Stewart Quote: “For he realized that a man should make peace with himself, even though all conditions changed, and that a man should face the question of whether in his life he had satisfied the ideas which he had built up within himself as to what he should be, and that all this was not a matter of priests and religion but of a man himself.”

21. “For he realized that a man should make peace with himself, even though all conditions changed, and that a man should face the question of whether in his life he had satisfied the ideas which he had built up within himself as to what he should be, and that all this was not a matter of priests and religion but of a man himself.”

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George R. Stewart Quote: “A certain amount of looting, particularly of liquor stores was reported.”

22. “A certain amount of looting, particularly of liquor stores was reported.”

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George R. Stewart Quote: “When the opportunity was at your hand, you did not dare to seize it. When the opportunity was lost, it became precious.”

23. “When the opportunity was at your hand, you did not dare to seize it. When the opportunity was lost, it became precious.”

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George R. Stewart Quote: “Why we Americans should be so dendrophilic in our homes, and so dendrophobic in our business-districts is another subject of study which should be referred to our anthropologists.”

24. “Why we Americans should be so dendrophilic in our homes, and so dendrophobic in our business-districts is another subject of study which should be referred to our anthropologists.”

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George R. Stewart Quote: “Yes,” he said, “but we are on the ground here; this is our place; he comes breaking in; he must adapt himself to us; not we to him.”

25. “Yes,” he said, “but we are on the ground here; this is our place; he comes breaking in; he must adapt himself to us; not we to him.”

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George R. Stewart Quote: “In that world, those with seeing eyes could only blunder about, but the blind man would be at home, and now instead of being the one who was guided by others, he might be one the one to whom the others clung for guidance.”

26. “In that world, those with seeing eyes could only blunder about, but the blind man would be at home, and now instead of being the one who was guided by others, he might be one the one to whom the others clung for guidance.”

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George R. Stewart Quote: “History was an artist, maintaining the idea but changing the details, like a composer keeping the same theme but dulling it to a minor or lifting by an octave, now crooning it with violins, now blaring it on trumpets.”

27. “History was an artist, maintaining the idea but changing the details, like a composer keeping the same theme but dulling it to a minor or lifting by an octave, now crooning it with violins, now blaring it on trumpets.”

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George R. Stewart Quote: “Though the centuries have passed since Koheleth looked upon all things and found them fickle as wind, yet still we know little of what goes to the making of a man – least surely of all, why usually there issue forth only those who see what is, and why rarely, now and then, there comes forth among them the chosen one, Child of the Blessing, who sees not what is, but sees what is not, and seeing thus what is not, imagines also what may be. Yet without this rare one all men are as beasts.”

28. “Though the centuries have passed since Koheleth looked upon all things and found them fickle as wind, yet still we know little of what goes to the making of a man – least surely of all, why usually there issue forth only those who see what is, and why rarely, now and then, there comes forth among them the chosen one, Child of the Blessing, who sees not what is, but sees what is not, and seeing thus what is not, imagines also what may be. Yet without this rare one all men are as beasts.”

— George R. Stewart

George R. Stewart Quote: “But whether the new would follow the course which the old had followed, that he did not know, and now at last he was almost certain that he did not even desire that the cycle should be repeated. He suddenly thought of all that had gone to build civilization – of slavery and conquest and war and oppression.”

29. “But whether the new would follow the course which the old had followed, that he did not know, and now at last he was almost certain that he did not even desire that the cycle should be repeated. He suddenly thought of all that had gone to build civilization – of slavery and conquest and war and oppression.”

— George R. Stewart

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