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Top 25 Robert Wilson Lynd Quotes (2025 Update)

Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.”

1. “The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.”

2. “There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes.”

3. “The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.”

4. “In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.”

5. “Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “There are two sorts of curiosity – the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.”

6. “There are two sorts of curiosity – the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.”

7. “Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.”

8. “We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.”

9. “It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.”

10. “A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same in every field of knowledge. Knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts not to bother about.”

11. “The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same in every field of knowledge. Knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts not to bother about.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “Most human beings are quite likable if you don’t see too much of them.”

12. “Most human beings are quite likable if you don’t see too much of them.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “Mr. Shaw came for a short time recently to be regarded less as an author than as an incident in the European War. In the opinion of many people it seemed as if the Allies were fighting against a combination composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Mr. Shaw.”

13. “Mr. Shaw came for a short time recently to be regarded less as an author than as an incident in the European War. In the opinion of many people it seemed as if the Allies were fighting against a combination composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Mr. Shaw.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “Dostoevsky’s visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.”

14. “Dostoevsky’s visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one’s employer as “the master.” What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.”

15. “When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one’s employer as “the master.” What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. It was cracked in a double sense – it was crazy. It gave back broken images of a world which it made look like the chaos of a lunatic dream.”

16. “The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. It was cracked in a double sense – it was crazy. It gave back broken images of a world which it made look like the chaos of a lunatic dream.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “The lovers of beauty must unite in a league, and carry out some great propagandist work through the country. They must demand the extermination of the bulldog and the dismantling of the cheap villa, both of which are responsible for a deal of our contentment amid ugliness.”

17. “The lovers of beauty must unite in a league, and carry out some great propagandist work through the country. They must demand the extermination of the bulldog and the dismantling of the cheap villa, both of which are responsible for a deal of our contentment amid ugliness.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.”

18. “It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.”

19. “A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.”

20. “Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.”

21. “There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “With Wordsworth, indeed, the light of revelation did not fall upon human beings so unbrokenly as upon the face of the earth. He knew the birds of the countryside better than the old men, and the flowers far better than the children.”

22. “With Wordsworth, indeed, the light of revelation did not fall upon human beings so unbrokenly as upon the face of the earth. He knew the birds of the countryside better than the old men, and the flowers far better than the children.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.”

23. “The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “This is woman’s great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.”

24. “This is woman’s great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.”

25. “It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “W. B. Yeats has created, if not a new world, a new star. He is not a reporter of life as it is, to the extent that Shakespeare or Browning is. One is not quite certain that his kingdom is of the green earth. He is like a man who has seen the earth not directly but in a crystal.”

26. “W. B. Yeats has created, if not a new world, a new star. He is not a reporter of life as it is, to the extent that Shakespeare or Browning is. One is not quite certain that his kingdom is of the green earth. He is like a man who has seen the earth not directly but in a crystal.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.”

27. “No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd Quote: “We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.”

28. “We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.”

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