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“I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn a language that…

— Bertrand Russell

“Most of the people share quotes and wordings not because they follow them or absorb for life but they knows by share it i…

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari

“I now know from voracious reading and tireless research that most of my favorite quotes are just paraphrases from ancient philosophers like Socrates, Aristotle,…

— Jeff Burden

“Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated nature. Demosthenes…

— Charles Spurgeon

“And this puts me in mind of that rich gentleman of Rome, who had been solicitous, with great expense, to procure men that were…

— Michel de Montaigne

“We need both Socrates and Aristotle in the search for knowledge, but in education today there is too much Aristotle and too little Socrates.”

— Gregory J.E. Rawlins

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which…

— Joseph Addison

Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid quotations detective…

— Richard Lederer

“Quotes are little packages of knowledge shared from others who have walked the path before, during and after us. They inspire, teach, encourage, inform…

— Kelly McNelis Senegor

“For, how could you expect me not to feel uneasy about what that ancient lawgiver they call the Public will say when it sees…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek…

— James Loeb

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that…

— Hesketh Pearson