Quotes

Robert Frost photo
Paulo Coelho photo

“What is outside is harder to change than what is inside.”

Source: Brida

Samuel Butler photo
Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.”

Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 483
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
Context: Enemies of truth. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Brandon Mull photo
Patrick Rothfuss photo
Richelle Mead photo

“… imperfection would get me farther than perfection.”

Source: The Fiery Heart

Charlie Chaplin photo
Annie Barrows photo

“Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.”

Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Quintana of Charyn

Scott Westerfeld photo

“Hiding from the truth was worse than being lied to.”

Source: Afterworlds

Jim Butcher photo

“Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!”

Source: Blood Rites

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing photo

“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.”

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic

Misattributed

“Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.”

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