Alphabet Quote by Hermann Ebbinghaus

The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

— Socrates

“Many modern alphabets, including ours, retain with minor modifications that original sequence (and, in the case of Greek, even the letters’ original names: alpha,…

— Jared Diamond

I think Greek is a really tough language to learn.

— Maria Sakkari

In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek…

— Winston Churchill

I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

— Elizabeth I

Whatever the Letter, Greeks do it better!

— Anonymous

From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to…

— Heinrich Schliemann

I believe the alphabet is no longer considered an essential piece of equipment for traveling through life. In my day it was the keystone…

— Eudora Welty

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Greek 201 is always easier than Greek 101, because at first it’s all Greek to you, and later the material is still all new,…

— Jarod Kintz

“It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea. Even a…

— Sara Coleridge