William Golding Quotes

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day.

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Doubt your doubts before you doubt your beliefs.

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

I'm so super-critical of everything that I do.

As a person... I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

You're smarter than TV. So what?

I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

I don't have a complex mind.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you've got to inquire, you've got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you're doing.

I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at it. I'm slow. Writing, which is an arduous and slow process, proceeds at the same rate as my sloth-like mind.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

I'm not much of an analyzer or a psychologist.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.