History Quote by Anonymous

“The more he studied, the more vistas he caught of fields of knowledge yet unexplored, and the regret that days were only twenty-four hours…

— Jack London

“Yet, during these broken and irregular periods, he had developed one of the most valuable assets any man can have, even from a university…

— Dale Carnegie

“The pursuit of knowledge, he maintained, was a worthy objective in its own right and needed no external validation.”

— Jon Krakauer

“...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely “Modern.” The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and…

— C.S. Lewis

“emotional stress in his life.  He was also intelligent.  He’d earned a Masters Degree in education and”

— Brian Harmon

“I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong…

— William Zinsser

“A man may possess a profound knowledge of history and mathematics; he may be an authority in psychology, biology, or astronomy; he may know…

— David O. McKay

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education…

— Anonymous

“He never sat an examination in economics: his knowledge came from pondering problems and discussing them as much as from book-learning.”

— Richard Davenport-Hines

“He had, in fact, already begun to sink into that creeping dry rot of pedagogy which is the worst and ultimate pitfall of the…

— James Hilton

“He’d just been awarded his master’s degree, and he was more or less pure hearted and well intentioned; his actions and decisions were dictated…

— Grant Ginder