Tag: intelligent

I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards

They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering

People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then,

I cannot live without books

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it

My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!