Famous aphorisms about literature

1. No matter how you try to detect excellent works, you cannot get to the bottom of them. ——Goethe

2. It is literature that awakens our attention to the principles of human life, calms fires, and suppresses evil. ——St. Pierre

3. As long as people become more and more depraved, literature will also plummet. ——Goethe

4. Writing sentences behind closed doors is not poetry, but marching has its own poetry. ——Yang Wanli

5. Literature is a reflection of social phenomena through the creative process: in turn, society must be shaped by the creative influence of literature. ——Guo Moruo

6. Between genius and diligence, I choose diligence without hesitation. She is the midwife of almost all achievements in the world. ——Einstein

7. Literary works should enable readers to get pleasure not only from the things the works say, but also from the way these things are said; otherwise, it cannot be called literature. ——Brook

8. Writers express themselves through abstraction, that is, through concepts. But the painter concretizes his feelings and perceptions through sketches and colors.

9. Wonderful ideas are like wandering children, they will appear when you least expect them. ——BernWilliams

10. No one can become famous by imitating others. ——Samuel Johnson

11. A great poem is like a fountain, always spouting water of wisdom and joy. ——Shelley

12. People with rich knowledge and experience are more likely to generate new associations and unique insights than people with only one kind of knowledge and experience. ——Taylor

13. Truth and virtue are two close friends of art. Do you want to be a writer or a critic? Please be a virtuous person first. —— Diderot

14. A person who can think is truly a person with boundless power. ——Balzac

15. A person’s life may burn or decay. I cannot decay, I am willing to burn! ——Ostrovsky

16. To read any good book is to talk to many noble people. ——Descartes

17. I write about my liver and lungs to others, and the world will know that I have frosty sideburns. ——Su Shi of the Song Dynasty

18. Literature is like fire in a furnace. We borrow fire from others, ignite ourselves, and then pass it on to others, so that it is accepted by everyone. ——Flaubert

19. Only a great personality can have a great style. ——Goethe

20. Learning without thinking will lead to confusion; thinking without learning will lead to peril. ——Confucius

21. My achievements should be attributed to energetic thinking. ——Newton

22. Literature is to use language to create images, models and characters, and to use language to reflect real events, natural scenery and thinking processes. ——Gorky

23. Literature should foresee the future and run at the forefront with its most beautiful and inspiring achievements, as if it is protecting life moving forward. —— A. Tolstoy

24. Insight into worldly matters is knowledge, and understanding of human feelings is knowledge. ——Cao Xueqin of the Qing Dynasty

25. Speeches are related to current affairs, and chapters reflect the national style. ——Du Xunhe of Tang Dynasty

26. The beauty of things exists in the minds of people who observe it carefully. ——Hume

27. Patience and perseverance will always be rewarded. ——Einstein

28. Any literature that does not take the perfection of morality, ideals and usefulness as its purpose is pathological and unhealthy literature. ——Zhongma Xiao

29. People who engage in literature only need to be tenacious, serious, and resilient. ——Lu Xun

30. What is art but a way of observation? ——Thomas Berger

31. Reading without thinking is equivalent to eating without digesting.

——Polk

32. Literature makes thoughts full of flesh and blood. It can give thoughts great clarity and explanation better than philosophy or science. ——Golky

33. An article about my liver and lungs makes people know that I have frosty sideburns. ——Su Shi

34. I never remember what is already printed in the dictionary. My memory is used to remember things that are not in the books. ——Einstein

35. To learn knowledge, you must be good at thinking, thinking, and thinking again. This is how I became a scientist. ——Albert Einstein

36. Speak with determination, sincerity and skill in speech. ——Liu Xie

37. Speak with determination, sincerity and skillful speech. ——Liu Xie of the Southern and Northern Dynasties

38. The broader a person’s knowledge, the more perfect he himself will be. ——Gorky

39. Those who are knowledgeable about things will have rich words, and those with great ambitions will have great feelings... ——Liang Su

40. All articles are well-known. ——Wang Shipeng, Song Dynasty

41. Don’t wait for tomorrow to do what you do today, and don’t wait for others to do what you do. ——Goethe

42. Palaces and castles that cannot be built with any manpower and materials in the world can be successfully built with words. ——Shen Congwen

43. Life is beautiful, but it lacks form. The goal of art is to give life some form. ——JeanAnouilh