Logo
Quote by John Updike
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a grea

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. – John Updike

Other quotes by John Updike

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

Category:
Poetry
Author
John Updike
Read Quote

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

Category:
Government
Author
John Updike
Read Quote

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. – John Updike

Category:
Leadership
Author
John Updike
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Sanity
category

Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: “Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?” – Madame Swetchine

Category:
Sanity

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. – Henry Ward Beecher

Category:
Sanity

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation. – Anatole France

Category:
Sanity

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are. – William Ellery Channing

Category:
Sanity

Random Quotes

Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way. – Beth Ditto

Category:
mom

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. – Matthew Arnold

Category:
America

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. – Henry Steele Commager

Category:
Censorship

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. – Honore de Balzac

Category:
Love