I have been recently thinking why it is exactly that I am so drawn to quotations and words of others. Is it because my creativity lacks greatly in this department? Well, I admit, I am not the most creative person in the world but I like words of great personalities and artists, and generally wise people because a lot of times they express what I believe so much better and so much more adequately than I could. So, today I give you words borrowed from others on why we quote:
When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly. - Michel de Montaigne
It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own. - Peter Anderson (this one's funny, but true nonetheless)
A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems.- William B. Sprague
I love quotes, too. Sometimes they say something you think but haven't been able to verbally express. Sometimes they just say it better! I love quotes that are witty, deep, or are about books and reading (because obviously I like books!) :)
ReplyDeleteI post different quotations in my blog several times a week! I love them. I figure many very smart and learned people have come before me and have said some pretty amazing things, why not learn from them?! So that's why I love quotations.
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