True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I approve of theatre as a university course. I think theatre's something you do. I mean, literature is a… — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is knowing the right thing to do and doing it at the right time to get the desired result. It is… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
Do you know-I hardly remembered you? Hardly remembered me? I mean: how shall I explain? I-it's always so. Each time you happen… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well.… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
It is right for you, young men, to enrich yourselves with the spoils of all pure literature; but he who would make… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film… — David Small Copy Share Image
The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this:… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
How any person decides to emphasize strengths and mitigate weaknesses is something people have to figure out for themselves. I'm wary of… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China;… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think about all the people who have created something that lives after them - works of art, plays, music, films, literature,… — Seamus Dever Copy Share Image
I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“I never have any clue what my next book is going to be about, when the time comes, the book starts pouring… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music, dance, literature and the visual arts open up a rich and intensely rewarding world. It is a world that should not… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having… — William James Copy Share Image
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He's the role… — Arinn Dembo Copy Share Image
Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
“Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her brain astir, furnished… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I went to a branch of the City of Westminster College in Maida Vale to do drama, sociology and English literature. I… — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
