Dorothy Canfield Fisher - Human Quotes

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Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The richness and endless variety of human relationships... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a hopeless business, like trying to dip up the ocean with a tea-spoon.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it — why — there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed by their lack of brains, courage and initiative, by their extraordinary ability to get themselves into uncomfortable or dangerous situations and then wait in inert helplessness for someone to rescue them.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher