It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia WoolfFor awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
F. Scott FitzgeraldFriendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
VoltaireTrue happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph AddisonLife is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tennessee WilliamsPeople who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques RousseauIf you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
Charles BukowskiYou will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.
Margaret AtwoodI like to read books. I like to listen to music.
Haruki MurakamiThe most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David ThoreauGood men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.
Leonardo da VinciNo man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
J. Robert OppenheimerAn empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.
Stephen CoveyFriendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis BaconWhen you pick up a book, everyone knows it’s imaginary. You don’t have to pretend it’s not a book. We don’t have to pretend that people don’t write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn’t the only way to do it. Once you’re writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.
Paul AusterIt is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich NietzscheFriends accept you the way you are.
Marilyn MonroeReading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean-Jacques RousseauNew knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt VonnegutI don’t think about who the audience is for my books.
J. K. RowlingOnly the educated are free.
EpictetusEach has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia WoolfThe goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John F. KennedyYou can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
David ByrneThe good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
Ernest HemingwayThis report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Winston ChurchillI do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham LincolnBetween men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar WildeWhat we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas CarlyleBeware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt VonnegutI have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.
Emily DickinsonThe aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
William JamesAnd what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
PlatoKnowledge is power.
Francis BaconDo not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan ThomasTo learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.
Stephen CoveySuppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac AsimovIn football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.
Cristiano RonaldoA friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry AdamsReading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.
Arthur SchopenhauerEvery utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?
Margaret AtwoodIf Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
Steven WrightThe truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, & Ginsberg’s period. Excuse me, but that’s where it was at.
David BowieAs far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.
Terry PratchettThe educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
AristotleFriendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
Muhammad AliThere are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin FranklinI haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.
Lando NorrisMistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Carl JungOne friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry AdamsPerhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya AngelouPoetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
H. L. MenckenThe smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
Warren BuffettI’m not a nerd, don’t plan to be a nerd and read books – which I can’t do at all.
Virat KohliWords without thoughts never to heaven go.
William ShakespeareAny man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.
Mr. TLet blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Warren BuffettI remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.
Marilyn MonroeBe slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
SocratesKnowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
Leonardo da Vinci