The moment a student gives up his right of personal judgment, he is in for accepting all the humbugs of life
Lin YutangMots clés judgment
When one's thoughts and experience have not reached a certain point for reading a masterpiece, the masterpiece will leave only a bad flavor on his palate.
Lin YutangAnd if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted
Lin YutangThere are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.
Lin YutangThere is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere
Lin YutangMots clés reading
Scholars who are worth anything at all never know what is call "a hard grind" or what "bitter study" means.
Lin YutangIn fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at a fish without immediately thinking of how it tastes in the mouth and wanting to eat it. The reason I don't trust Chinese surgeons is that I am afraid that when a Chinese surgeon cuts up my liver in search of a gall-stone, he may forget about the stone and put my liver in a frying pan.
Lin YutangBesides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin YutangMots clés life simplicity
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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Lin YutangMake No Distinctions
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