"The wise man reads both books and life…" — Lin Yutang

"The wise man reads both books and life itself."

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83 Quotes by Lin Yutang

Lin Yutang has 83 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little…
However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated…
Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his…
No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful…
Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to…
It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.
Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India
I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of…
Art is both creation and recreation.
Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus…
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
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I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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