Educated Quote by Anonymous

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...

— George Eliot

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels.…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

What intrigued me about him was his intelligence, his humor. I'd been all over the world. I had started a career. At that point,…

— Cindy McCain

“he was the most gifted English scientist of his age, but also the strangest. He suffered, in the words of one of his few…

— Bill Bryson

I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a child’s ideal companion, full of surprises and happy animal…

— Anonymous

He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now I think…

— Emily Giffin

“His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless;…

— W. Somerset Maugham

...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.

— Jean Rhys

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his…

— Joanna Trollope

Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of…

— Diane Ackerman

He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.

— Anonymous

Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, Nature was his book.

— Robert Bloomfield