However exquisitely human nature may have been described…

I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard…

— David Livermore

How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.

— Toni Morrison

True practical Christianity (never let it be forgotten) consists in devoting the heart and life to God; in being supremely and habitually governed by…

— William Wilberforce

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

— Allen Ginsberg

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in…

— Terry McMillan

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that…

— Mark Twain

For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed by the…

— Helen Vendler

“Despite all that I had taught, I had learned nothing about the world.”

— Melanie Benjamin

“By the time you are old enough to pick up a book like this one, you have learned it: the world is not your…

— Susan Neiman

We've learned to see the world in gasps.

— Margaret Atwood

What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The more I learned about the world I thought I knew and all the ones I didn't, the more everything threaded together, leading everywhere…

— Kami Garcia

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

— Rutger Hauer

I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.

— Jeff VanderMeer

Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,…

— Aristotle