Robert Staughton Lynd Author
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: United States
- Born: Sep 26, 1892
- Died: Nov 1, 1970
Robert Staughton Lynd was an American sociologist and professor at Columbia University, New York City. Robert and his wife Helen Lynd are best known for writing the groundbreaking "Middletown" studies of Muncie, Indiana - Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture and Middletown in Transition, which are classics of American sociology. Muncie was the first community to be systematically examined by sociologists in the United States.
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
knowledge
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
knowledge & power
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
friendship
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
poetry
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.
birthday & time