There are many ways to get smarter - the undeniable winner would be finishing school and studies, but there are also various courses, the School of Life, just getting older and wiser, and then there are books. And while not all of them are meant to make you smarter (like the one about handcrafts from cat hair), some exist solely for this purpose. And no, we’re not talking about astrophysics textbooks, but rather various fictional stories into which the writers poured their wit and their intelligence for you to take note of. Undoubtedly, the best effect can be reached by reading the whole entirety of these books, but checking out the distilled version of just the most notable quotes is also a good start. So here’s our cue - we are presenting you our list of the best, the most intelligent, and thought-provoking book quotes known to date. Of course, not all of the smartest quotes got a chance to appear on our list; otherwise, it would be roughly the length of a giraffe’s neck, so take this article as a distillation of a distillation. This, actually, should give you a quite acceptable idea of what to expect from some of the famous books out of which we’ve plucked these intelligent quotes.
From such iconic writers as Kurt Vonnegut, Ernest Hemingway, and Maya Angelou to more unexpected ones as Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl - all of these quotes are quite inspiring and worthy of memorizing. And, as discussed above, these book quotes might even make you smarter by revealing some hidden secrets about our existence and the existence of things surrounding you. All that’s left to do is to greet these wise words with an open mind! Be sure to upvote the phrases that have impacted you the most or resonated with you and share these book quotes with your friends!
#1
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." - The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
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"There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after." - The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
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"Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?" - Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
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"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." - Animal Farm by George Orwell
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"It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it." - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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"What’s the point of having a voice if you’re gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn’t be?" - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
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"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful." - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories." - The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
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"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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"Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand." - Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
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#12
"We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life." - The Children Of Men by P.D. James
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"One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others." - The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
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"That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet." - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
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"Not all those who wander are lost." - The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkein
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"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do." - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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"I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way." - Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change." - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." - The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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