"Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent."

--

Source : William Isaac Thomas, Florian Znaniecki, Eli Zaretsky (1996). “The Polish Peasant in Europe and America: A Classic Work in Immigration History”, p.132, University of Illinois Press

Florian Znaniecki

#Teacher Quotes #Students Quotes #Descent Quotes

“Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.”
“I was self-conscious of what I would call my "tree-trunk legs" because they are very muscular... but now I've learned to love them.”
“It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty near tireless fun for me. I'd rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world.”
“I try to attach myself to things around me so that they don't slip away.”
“The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.”
“I'm not trying to be philosophical, but I really think it's my job to help children. And I don't care if people laugh.”
“Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.”
“Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.”

You may also like:

Auguste Comte
Philosopher
Charles Horton Cooley
Sociologist
Emile Durkheim
Sociologist
Georg Simmel
Philosopher
George H. Mead
Philosopher
Max Weber
Sociologist
Robert K. Merton
Sociologist of Science
Talcott Parsons
Sociologist
W. I. Thomas
Sociologist