Category: Intelligent quotes

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show

The truth is rarely pure and never simple

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book

‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose

Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again