Charles Lamb Quotes

One must be an inventor to read well.

To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.

I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I was lucky I went to school in London because the tutors could see what to do. I knew I wanted to do something different. Why would I want to do what other people were already doing, because they would always do it better? I always wanted to work around the body. So throughout my college years, my work was quite free.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

Question everything. Don't try to emulate someone else's path. Look at what you have, the tools you have, the place you're in; know the rules, and break them.

I just want to be as creative as I possibly can.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

People really need to take time and read a book. You know? That’s my advice. You could read A New Slant on Life, you could read Dianetics. And I think if you really read it, you’ll understand it, but unless you do, you’ll speculate. And I think that’s a mistake to do that.

If you live your life only following the path you think is approved or acceptable, or the one you think is expected of you, you’ll be making a huge mistake. Not a single successful person… has ever done great things because they played it safe. You’ve got to be true to yourself.

Who knows if Shakespeare might not have thought less if he had read more?

Without theory we can only copy.

Many adults, whether consciously or unconsciously, find it beneath their adult dignity to do anything as childish as read a book, think a thought, or get an idea. Adults are rarely embarrased at having forgotten what little algebra or geography they once learned

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Don't follow in any footprints, make your own prints. Because, you are the future of tomorrow.

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

Never trust anybody with only one book.

he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation.

Knowing a lot...is a springboard to creativity.