Quotes by Umberto Eco

Explore a curated collection of 38 quotes by Umberto Eco. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn th — Umberto Eco
Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t — Umberto Eco
I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself to certain ar — Umberto Eco
If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teachthem how to use television. — Umberto Eco
We live for books. — Umberto Eco
I love the smell of book ink in the morning. — Umberto Eco
I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible — Umberto Eco
We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simp — Umberto Eco
But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn't believe in it? — Umberto Eco
Translation is the art of failure. — Umberto Eco
He is always on the brink of suicide... because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the — Umberto Eco
We need an enemy to give people hope. Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards: those without moral pr — Umberto Eco
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon — Umberto Eco
Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived. — Umberto Eco
The great Bonaventure said that the wise must enhance conceptual clarity with the truth implicit in the actions of the s — Umberto Eco
Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative devel — Umberto Eco
I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way — Umberto Eco
The visitor enters and says, "What a lot of books! Have you read them all?" ...The best answer is the one always used by — Umberto Eco
The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. Thi — Umberto Eco
The excluded when on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true leper are only the illustration ordained by god to — Umberto Eco