H. L. Mencken Quotes About Dreams

• The more a man dreams, the less he believes.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  H.L. Mencken (1920). “Prejudices Second Series”

• The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dream, Women, Giving

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.9, 谷月社

• No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Suicide, Dream

• A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Education, Dream

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.303, Vintage

• This passion, so unordered and yet so potent, explains the capacity for teaching that one frequently observes in scientific men of high attainments in their specialties-for example, Huxley, Ostwald, Karl Ludwig, Virchow, Billroth, Jowett, William G. Sumner, Halsted and Osler-men who knew nothing whatever about the so-called science of pedagogy, and would have derided its alleged principles if they had heard them stated.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dream, Teaching, Passion

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

• Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dream, Heaven, Democracy

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.412, Knopf

• No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dream, Children, Heart

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.325, Vintage

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