Doe Quote by George Eliot

Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know…

— H. L. Mencken

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or…

— C. S. Lewis

Professors who hold unpopular positions or state inconvenient facts are now considered psychologically toxic.

— Amy Wax

“No one with a thirst for knowledge goes to the university now. Half of the faculty has resigned, the other half gives courses in…

— Douglas Adams

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

— Ben Jonson

The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something…

— Jane Austen

Our particular problem in America at this point in history is the widespread loss of the sense of individual significance, a loss which is…

— Rollo May

Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“In fact, because the unself-aware—which includes basically everybody—are impervious to uncharitable perceptions of their underlying motives, all these insights you have into people and…

— Lionel Shriver

“Too much study leads to worn out,”

— Lailah Gifty Akita