Quotes from Books

The man who is really in danger is the man who is in a position to be able to do nothing.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue.

It is a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

There is no greater burden than a great potential.

In England, it is not so much that the people are ignorant, but that they are not interested.

The Spanish Civil War is a tragedy of the century.

At the time, I was a socialist, but it was clear that many of the socialists were themselves fighting for a dictatorship.

The road is life.

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.

It is a matter of life and death. It is a matter of life and death.

The things that happen to people we never really know.

I think that the only way to find out how much you can take is to take it.

The experience of writing is a solitary one.

It's a hard thing to laugh when you want to cry.

The only thing that counts is that you got a chance to do something.

I’m not crazy. I’m not crazy. I’m not crazy.

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

The only way to change the world is to change the way people think.

I can't change the way I was born, but I can change the way I live.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.

The element is where the things you love to do and the things you are good at come together.

Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.

The people at the top don’t just work harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

We are all products of our upbringing and environment.

The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.

There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.

A man’s scent is the most powerful part of him.

The world is not as it seems; it is full of smells.

There is no greater pleasure than to be able to smell the beauty of the world.

The way a choice is framed can significantly affect the decision we make.

Nudges are not mandates; they are intended to make it easier for people to make better choices.

Human beings are not always rational, and their choices can be influenced by context.

I think that the most important thing is to be yourself.

I am not a great writer; I am a great rewriter.

I like the idea of being a poet, and I feel that I have a poet’s heart.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

You are not your mind.

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

I want to be a writer. I want to be a journalist.

Sometimes, we have to take a leap of faith.

We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.

True tolerance requires that we not only allow others to think differently but also understand why they do.

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Love is a disease that can only be cured by marriage.

A man knows when he is getting old because he begins to look like his father.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Big Brother is Watching You.

In the face of pain, there are no heroes.

The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

The art of seeing is not only about what we see; it's also about how we see.

The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe.

Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.

A photograph is both a pseudonym and a passport.

In photography, the presence of the subject is always mediated.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability.

The Black Swan is a metaphor for unpredictable events that can have a massive impact.

We tend to overestimate what we know and underestimate what we don’t know.

The inability to predict certain events does not mean they are unimportant.