Not every written word has the power to inspire you and help you achieve motivation that is required for the procurement of success in every walk of life. I believe a great deal in quotes and their power to invoke creativity in both adults and children. Below is a set of most famous Philip Pullman quotes that are must read for your children. Scroll below to get inspired:
“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shall not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”
― Philip Pullman
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman
“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
“I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
“I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.”
― Philip Pullman
“People are too complicated to have simple labels.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
“All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
“I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
“There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.”
― Philip Pullman
“Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must.
Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
“You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
“I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
“I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.”
― Philip Pullman
“Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.”
― Philip Pullman
“Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.”
― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife
“If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure. ”
― Philip Pullman, Clockwork
“We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
“And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
“So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
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