Best 100 quotes of Stanislaw Jerzy Lec on MyQuotes

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

All Gods were immortal.

Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal

An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.

A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?

A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.

Believers believe in resurrection, atheists only in comebacks.

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.

Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

Do not make gods in your own images.

Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

Do I believe? God only knows.

Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?

Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.

Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.

Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up

He who limps is still walking.

He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.

How many prison years in the years since Christ!

I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.

If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.

I has a dream about reality. It was such a relief to wake up.

Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.

Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff.

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers... of other countries.

Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.

Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.

Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.

Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.

Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.