Able Quote by Samuel Johnson

Good knowledge of an art or profession is essential to be successful in life. A man with insufficient knowledge will always cause harm to…

— Vikrant Parsai

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to…

— Murasaki Shikibu

ALL MEANINGFUL KNOWLEDGE IS FOR THE SAKE OF ACTION, AND ALL MEANINGFUL ACTION FOR THE SAKE OF FRIENDSHIP.

— John Macmurray

Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.

— Richard Stallman

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems…

— Charles de Lint

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

— Henry David Thoreau

That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require,…

— Samuel Johnson

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

— C. S. Lewis

Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

— Elliot W. Eisner

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

— Simone Weil

Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?

— Gabrielle Roy

Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art...

— Michael Kimmelman