Inspirational Quotes about Quotations

Inspirational Quotes about Quotations

"Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life's most important lessons, we can all use gentle reminders."
Chriswell Freeman

"Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author."
Samuel Johnson

"I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence."
Robert Burns

"Life itself is a quotation."
Jorge Luis Borges

"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."
Amos Bronson Alcott

"A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool."
Joseph Roux

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations."
William Feather

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."
Sir Winston Churchill

"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself."
Marlene Dietrich

"The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A quote can change the way you think about challenges you face."
Catherine Pulsifer

"I quote others only to better express myself."
Michel Montaigne

"A book of quotations, can never be complete."
Robert M. Hamilton

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. "
George Bernard Shaw

"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."
Douglas Jerrold


Benjamin Disraeli once said, "The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation." We agree there are many that contain wisdom and experience in them. And, Michel de Montaigne said, "When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly. We believe this as they can help express a thought or an idea that you just can't find the right words to express.