Sholem Asch's Quotes

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.