Robert Staughton Lynd

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#facts #knowledge #knowledge is power #knows #man

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#arms #because #other #people #round

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#especially #most #own #remember #risen

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#be happy #believe #happy #make #most

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#difficulties #disappear #half #i #imaginary

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#indifferent #only #own #suffering #thing

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#makes #making #mean #most #really

There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#feel #good #idea #makes #nothing

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#considerably #dead #every #every man #genius

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#friendship #good #good advice #long #much