Books Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

“brilliance, tempered by laziness. Not one for unnecessary exercise, or any at all if it could be avoided,”

— J. Jackson Bentley

“Life Without Work To do nothing In this day and age, When so much pointless work Is being produced, Could almost be considered an…

— John Tottenham

“The moment a realm of intellectual activity is codifiable, it ceases to be uniquely human.”

— Anonymous

“Henry David Thoreau (who wrote, “I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest…

— Greg McKeown

“A novel does not assert anything, a novel poses questions... The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. When Don Quixote…

— Milan Kundera

“Don Quixote is so crazy that he is sure no author could have invented him”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“The pursuit of the impossible through the useless.”

— Gabriel Tarde

“Inspiration without intellect is useless and dangerous; and the poet will be able to perform few wonders, when he is astonished by wonders.”

— Novalis

“A scholar must not only be capable of hard, often totally resultless work - he must actually relish it.”

— Richard D. Altick

“Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of he sort…

— Bertrand Russell

“There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson