Habits Quote by Toni Morrison

And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite;…

— Toni Morrison

“In the beginning the word was with God; all explanations, physical and moral, rested on the divine. And now for storytellers, even though those…

— Jill Patton Walsh

“Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors…

— Charles MacKay

“Yes, we call it recursive, the act of reading, of looping the loop, of continually returning to an earlier group of words, behaving like…

— William H. Gass

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”

— Romans 12 2 NIV translation

“Written language may have been conceived as a modest way of describing reality, bit it gradually became a powerful way to reshape reality.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“talking about clear minds writing in clear language—the predictions of Saint Augustine, Sir Francis Bacon, Newton, Einstein, the list goes on and on, all…

— Dan Brown

Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original…

— Alberto Manguel

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence…

— Marshall McLuhan

“The more that the human mind is enlightened, the more desirous it becomes of farther acquisitions in knowledge. The”

— Alexander Stewart

“But the writing was clever. The facts, if not true, were well invented; the arguments, if not logical, were seductive. The”

— Anthony Trollope