Karl Popper Quotes

Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

If God had made a perfect world, it would be a magic trick, not creation, with no meaning or place for us to learn and create. Mankind is not yet ready for a perfect world. We do not know how to appreciate perfection.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

There are things that you write when you're 20 and there are things that you write when you're 40 and then there are things that you write when you're old.

People mature. They learn. They get better at things. You're different when you're 45 than when you're 25.

In terms of the past, I think we've all learned from the past. I think that's great wisdom.

Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.

Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone.

Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for a reason. They're not called oil paintings. Some of them are going to stink. You have to let them stink.

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.

Time is the author of authors.

Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me want to figure things out.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Our only purpose in life is growth.

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.

Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from.

The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished animal and an unfinished man. It is this incurable unfinishedness which sets man apart from other living things. For, in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator. Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.