Books Quote by Elizaveta Mikhailichenko Yury Nesis

“Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“it has been my experience with literary critics and academics in this country that clarity looks a lot like laziness and ignorance and childishness…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The problem is not people being educated. The problem is that they are educated just enough to believe what they've been taught, but not…

— MJ DeMarco

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm…

— Aristotle

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.

— Umberto Eco

“It is the modern literature of the educated, not of the uneducated, which is avowedly and aggressively criminal..The vast mass of humanity, with their…

— Anonymous

If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The World needs Educated Persons not the Literate Ones”

— Yarro Rai

“What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.”

— Thomas Sowell

It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate, and infinitely better looking.

— Chris Claremont

Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him

— Johann Georg Hamann