Education Quote by Peter Ackroyd

“Learning English was like lifting a veil, one which would be, he'd learn, impossible to fully restore.”

— Glenn Diaz

“With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to resist as…

— Aldous Huxley

“Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn…

— Jack Kerouac

“We who are here to-night are here as the servants of the guests of a great University, a University of knowledge, scholarship, and intellect.…

— Charles Williams

“It has always indeed been my disposition not only to set the highest esteem upon all kinds of learning, but to regard with the…

— Nicola Tallis

“There are, I know, those who prefer not to go beyond the impression, however accidental, which an old work makes on a mind that…

— C.S. Lewis

“Broadly speaking, affairs that were urgently political in Europe aroused only intellectual interest in Britain; while topics of intellectual concern on the Continent were…

— Tony Judt

“...learning was an act of rediscovery, knowledge a form of remembering.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this…

— Bertrand Russell

“But while we are confined to books, though the most select and classic, and read only particular written languages, which are themselves but dialects…

— Anonymous

“When you travel like I did, vague about destination and with an open-ended itinerary, a holy-seeming openness takes over your character. It's the reason…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“I began to recall my own experience when I was Mercutio’s age (late teens I decided, a year or two older than Romeo) as…

— Roger Allam