Behinds Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation – a meagre entertainment for a young man who…

— Henry James

It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.

— Wallace Stevens

“He taught me to read and write. I learned my lessons with my elder children. He has always kept school in our house, every…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using.”

— Timothy Gowers

He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.

— Ovid

“Learning takes place everyday, everywhere, and everytime. What you say is what you have learnt unless you're conscious and pretending. Think and learn, there…

— Osunsakin Adewale

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears…

— Michael Morpurgo

“My father taught us to learn as much as possible of any tongue we came across. He says it’s better than money in the…

— Ken Follett

“The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in.... He now knows that the only words worth writing…

— Andreï Makine

Education teaches a man how to speak, now how long or how often.

— Vikrant Parsai

“When land is gone and money's spent, Then learning is most excellent.”

— George Eliot

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the…

— Samuel Johnson