Learning Quote by Ryan Holiday

“philosophy of Marcus Aurelius and some of the work of Seneca.”

— Robin S. Sharma

“Between the lines Phaedrus read no doubts, no sense of awe, only the eternal smugness of the professional academician.”

— Robert M. Pirsig

“That was the way with Casaubon's hard intellectual labours. Their most characteristic result was not the 'Key to all Mythologies', but a morbid consciousness…

— George Eliot

“Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor and philosopher, wrote, “Every morning when I leave my house, I say to myself, ‘Today I shall meet an…

— Dorothy Grover Bolton

“A realization came to Books in that moment, one that shook his beliefs even more than when he had learned magic existed: Sicarius cared.”

— Lindsay Buroker

“And this puts me in mind of that rich gentleman of Rome, who had been solicitous, with great expense, to procure men that were…

— Michel de Montaigne

“…the matter was new to me, and I had no material for its treatment. But I got books, read up the facts, laboriously constructed…

— Charlotte Brontë

“I found an additional merit in everything that was in my mind at the moment, in the pink reflection of the tiled roof, the…

— Marcel Proust

“In Montaigne’s redrawn portrait of the adequate, semi-rational human being, it is possible to speak no Greek, fart, change one’s mind after a meal,…

— Alain de Botton

“One that has well digested his knowledge both of books and men, has little enjoyment but in the company of a few select companions.…

— David Hume

among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals…

— Thomas Jefferson

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans