Best quotes by John Steinbeck on Man

Checkout quotes by John Steinbeck on Man

  • Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
    - John Steinbeck
  • It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
    - John Steinbeck
  • No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
    - John Steinbeck
  • I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
    - John Steinbeck
  • Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
    - John Steinbeck