Great saying by great authors Quote by Geoffrey Chaucer

But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

He was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention…

— Hermann Hesse

“feel that it had not been the most direful mistake in his plan of education. Something must have been wanting within, or time would…

— Jane Austen

“Within a few moments he was immersed in his work. The evening before, he had caught up with the routine of his classwork; papers…

— John Williams

“There, he had learnt to distinguish between the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self-will, between the darings of heedlessness and the resolution…

— Jane Austen

“He forced his mind clear of other thoughts and waited. Stillness, he had learned, did not come naturally. He practiced it. Sometimes, as he…

— Elizabeth Musser

“In all outward aspects he remained patient and mild now, not caring even to speak against heretics; he knew that he was likely to…

— Ackroyd Peter

“He thought the best thing he had gained in Paris was a complete liberty of spirit, and he felt himself at last absolutely free.…

— William Somerset Maugham

“Suddenly he realised that he had lost also that burden of responsibility which made every action of his life a matter of urgent consequence.…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“The gods frowned upon wastrels. Roland had been raised, first by his father and then by Cort, his greatest teacher, to believe this, and…

— Stephen King

The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.

— Edmund Spenser

“that they had never been properly taught to govern their inclinations and tempers, by that sense of duty which can alone suffice. They had…

— Jane Austen