"The smarter you are and the harder you work, the greater the chance you’ll be outperformed by someone dumber and lazier."
- Shay Hill
"A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor."
- Umberto Eco
"Too many things together produce noise, and noise is not a tool of knowledge."
- Umberto Eco
"All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them."
- Umberto Eco
"The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity."
- Umberto Eco
"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."
- Umberto Eco
"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."
- Umberto Eco
"When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything."
- Umberto Eco
"Dan Brown and I read the same books, but he took them seriously."
- Umberto Eco
"I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing."