Classical Quote by Muriel Spark

People were always saying how modern players need to be able to play in two or three positions, and those words stuck in my…

— Casemiro

“I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence to subvert…

— Nuno Roque

Of course we had the best possible classical education, which gave us a very strong foundation and tradition. But we also learned a lot…

— Luka Sulic

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

— Raymond Chandler

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

— Aldous Huxley

“If a free people is going to be reproduced, it will require watering and revivifying and owning anew older traditions and awaking the curiosity…

— Ben Sasse

“I feign knowledge of writing: that I know something about it, that I should have learned something after all these years, that I might…

— Chila Woychik

“Classical education was only half the old system of European education--below it and above it there was the religious education that was common to…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.

— Russell Green

“Nowadays it seems you learn only what is reasonable and relevant. I went to Rome with a young friend, educated on the latest lines,…

— Jane Ellen Harrison

“Dave would marvel, “Do people not realize that they are living in the greater Renaissance? Could you imagine how much Isaac Newton would have…

— David Flynn

“One of the perils of a classical education, he often reflected, was a predilection for vocabulary of an obfuscating nature.”

— Melissa Wiley