“Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you read like a reader, you identify with the characters in the story. The story is what you learn about. When you read like a writer, you identify with the author and learn about writing.”
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Wise Quotes — page 179 of 916
“The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.”
“Greatness doesn’t come from what you do, but from who you are.”
“The truth can only be recalled, never invented.”
“You will understand why when you look back, the answers are rarely given in the middle of the lesson.”
“I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.”
“In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.”
“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.”
“They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
“He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”
“There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.”
“If your writing doesn`t keep you up at night, it won`t keep anyone else up either".”
“We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.”
“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.”
“The Executive is charged officially in the Departments under it with the disbursement of the public money, and is responsible for the faithful application of it to the purposes for which it is raised. The Legislature is the watchful guardian over the public purse. It is its duty to see that the disbursement has been honestly made.”
“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.”
“Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.”
“The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.”
“Repetition is the father of learning, I repeat, repetition is the father of learning.”
“Repetition is the father of learning.”