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Intellectual Laziness

Despite the tremendous benefits of learning and memorizing quotes, one should not take to only speaking in quotations. 

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In other words, we must write our own histories, and our own quotes. Utilizing the words of others for meditation purposes is beneficial, but in the end we must leave our own words of intelligence on a page. 

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
Roving Commission: My Early Life [1930]
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
                                                         Rudyard Kipling
Alhambra
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote.I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 
 
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