Literature Quotes

Books change lives. Authors and readers reflect on the power of the written word.

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"Great thinkers are great readers of both books and reality."
Anna Schwartz
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"Literature captures the human truths that statistics often miss."
Anna Schwartz
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"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life"
Kenneth Boulding
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"Literature reveals the human soul."
Gunnar Myrdal
"Literature endures because it captures truths that facts cannot convey."
Kenneth Arrow
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"Literature allows us to live many lives without losing our own."
Kenneth Boulding
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"Literature and art are languages of the human soul."
Kenneth Boulding
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"Literature and economics both tell stories about human choice."
Paul Samuelson
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"Literature captures economic truths that numbers alone cannot express."
Paul Samuelson
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"The written word has the power to change minds across generations."
Paul Samuelson
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"The proper study of mankind is books."
Milton Friedman
"Literature reveals what people truly believe, beneath their words."
Vilfredo Pareto
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"Literature reveals truths about human nature that numbers cannot capture."
Paul Samuelson
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"Literature teaches us to see the world through eyes other than our own."
Kenneth Boulding
"Literature preserves the wisdom of ages in accessible form."
Irving Fisher
"Literature preserves the wisdom of the ages."
Thorstein Veblen
"Literature is the examination of human folly by those who think they are above it."
Vilfredo Pareto
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"Literature preserves the wisdom of ages."
Thomas Malthus
"Literature mirrors the soul of humanity across the ages."
Vilfredo Pareto
"Literature is the record of how humans have wrestled with their condition across ages."
Joseph Schumpeter
"Literature preserves the wisdom of ages and illuminates the human condition."
Alfred Marshall
"Literature reveals that human nature is constant, though circumstances change."
Alfred Marshall
"The litmus test of a good policy is whether it would work in your own household."
Irving Fisher
"Literature preserves truths that data alone cannot capture."
Irving Fisher
"Literature is the mirror of society held up to itself."
Vilfredo Pareto
"The literature of economics should speak to the human heart, not merely the mind."
Alfred Marshall
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"Literature reveals the human soul."
Bob Kahn
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"Literature preserves human truth."
Bob Kahn
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"Literature teaches empathy by letting us live other lives."
Andrew Ng
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"The literature of science is written not just in papers, but in the lives touched."
Fei-Fei Li