Books Quote by Paul Roland

“In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness,…

— Charles MacKay

“In a world lost in the darkness of ignorance, deception and confusion, a self-educated human being with integrity is the Light.”

— Gavin Nascimento

“The existence of excessive nationalism is a symptom of a deeper problem in the collective consciousness, which is continually being exploited.”

— Bryant McGill

“It is the modern literature of the educated, not of the uneducated, which is avowedly and aggressively criminal..The vast mass of humanity, with their…

— Anonymous

“How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than…

— Mary Shelley

“The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light.”

— Victor Hugo

“For education to happen, people must encounter worthwhile things outside their sphere of interest and brainpower.”

— Mark Bauerlein

“Of all difficulties which impede the progress of thought, and the formation of well-grounded opinions on life and social arrangements, the greatest is now…

— John Stuart Mill

“He did not know how wide a country, arid and precipitous, must be crossed before the traveller through life comes to an acceptance of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier…

— Mary Shelley

“It's only when you have grazed on the lower slopes of your own ignorance and begun to understand the great vistas of nonknowledge that…

— Christopher Hitchens