Samuel Smiles Quotes

Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

People die, but books never die.

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

An author departs, he does not die.

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake.

We all know that books burn—yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die but books never die.

Great men have this in common with the Divinity that they never die entirely. Their spirit survives them.

All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath.

The idea of a piece of literature as a vessel that could contain your life and lived after you had died and been forgotten struck me as akin to artificial intelligence.

The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against the inexorable fate of all that lives - transitoriness and oblivion.

A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you.

Books are embalmed minds.

The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to die, and it'll all be gone. And then I say, not in my case. Every idea I've ever had I've written down, and it's all there on paper. And I won't be gone; it'll be there.