Classical education Quote by Melissa Wiley

“A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.”

— Raymond Chandler

“Dangerous knowledge is often hidden under ponderous grammar and obscurantist vocabulary.”

— Brent Weeks

“He insisted that it was impossible to understand a single word of the Book of Nature without knowing the language of mathematics.”

— Karen Armstrong

“The dictionary’s very flaws made the exertions and enthusiasm of its compilers real to his imagination. The vast array of words—entry words, definitions, examples—was…

— Shion Miura

“His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land…

— Edgar Wallace

“Again, he recommended the phenomenological method: disregard intellectual clutter, pay attention to things and let them reveal themselves to you.”

— Sarah Bakewell

“Yet he had expended much of an inquisitive nature upon random reading. By the sheer force of indiscriminate voracity, he had gleaned a smattering…

— Isaac Asimov

“As long as he followed the fixed definition of obscure words such as spirit, will, freedom, essence, purposely letting himself go into the snare…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He was uncannily skilled at dissecting hidden meaning behind every interaction.”

— Kathleen Tessaro

“He had that feeling he remembered from childhood when he opened a new textbook at the beginning of the term, ignorant of its contents…

— Haruki Murakami

“his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through them he…

— James Joyce