Quotes from J. Frank Dobie

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.

I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.

A few early farmers conserved the soil - George Washington was one - but they were stray oddities. A few pioneers had naturalistic interests, but any revelation of such interests branded the holder of them as being peculiar or even undemocratic. The mass rule then, as now, was: Conform and be dull.

He had a conscience as elastic as any politician could wish for.

The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

We sat down in front of the earth's great philosopher-the Fire.