Education Quote by Theodore Dalrymple

“Now didn't I warn you, just a little while ago: arithmetic leads to philology, and philology leads to crime . . .”

— Eugène Ionesco

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.”

— Richard Wright

“What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a…

— Paul Theroux

“In the infinite universe of literature there are always other avenues to explore, some brand-new and some exceedingly ancient, styles and forms that can…

— Italo Calvino

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

— John Updike

“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.”

— Henry James

“From the time when the exercise of the intellect became a source of strength and of wealth, we see that every addition to science,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“There’s plenty of serious stuff that works to cord the muscles of literary merit. But”

— Michael Robotham

“In the last stage of civilization, Poetry, Religion, and Philosophy will be one.”

— Thoreau

“When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson