“Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.”
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
“Nothing is more commonplace than the reading experience, and yet nothing is more unknown. Reading is such a matter of course that at first glance it seems there is nothing to say about it.”
Reading as Construction (1980)
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“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
“Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying”
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.”
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“There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.”
Akira Kurosawa book Something Like an Autobiography
Something Like an Autobiography (1981)
Context: Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America
Book Three, Chapter XIV.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three
