To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.

- Anthony Marais

We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

- Anthony Marais

Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.

- Anthony Marais

Wisdom doesn’t come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.

- Anthony Marais

Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!

- Anthony Marais

Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.

- Anthony Marais

The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?

- Anthony Marais

Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!

- Anthony Marais

To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.

- Anthony Marais