Writing Quotes

18562 Writing quotes by 6643 unique authors

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. — Douglas Engelbart
I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love. — Walt Whitman
If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee… — Pierre Loti
Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll… — John Grisham
Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous. — Ted Andrews
Writers write. Dreamers talk about it. — Jerry B. Jenkins
Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing. — Byron Katie
Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and… — Stephen Covey
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the… — Oscar Wilde
After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the… — Johannes Kepler
I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of… — Johannes Kepler
If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you… — Tom Stoppard
Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they… — Isaac Asimov
On one occasion when [William] Smart found him engrossed with his fundamental theory, he asked Eddington how many people he thought would understand what he… — Arthur Eddington
Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not a special, unique… — Lewis Thomas
What then is holiness? Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out of the gospel in our souls (Eph 4:24). — John Owen
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the… — John Herschel
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat,… — W. W. Rouse Ball
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveris.… — Abraham Lincoln
Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to… — Woody Allen
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place… — Archimedes
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?" — Gian-Carlo Rota
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science. — Thomas B. Macaulay
But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the… — Galileo Galilei

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