Oxford Quote by Tracy Chevalier

“He was hungry to learn about things. Unlike most of us, he was the sort of person who insisted on living out his beliefs.”

— Wayne Westerberg

“I realized that as a thinking person his advantage lay precisely in his lack of formal education. Nobody told him what to think, and…

— Peter Hessler

“He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many people . . . and yet, for him,…

— Dan Brown

“but he had only received that sort of answer usually given by those who are more obstinate in following their own course, than strong…

— Walter Scott

“He made a blushing cital of himself, And chid his truant youth with such a grace As if he mastered there a double sprite…

— William Shakespeare

“At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful…

— Nicholas Sparks

“So he got up in the morning as usual, walked to classes as usual, did his darndest to sit through his lectures as usual,…

— Michelle Kan

“I believed him because the truth is never hard to recognize. Nothing is ever quite so drab and repetitious and forlorn and ludicrous as…

— Budd Schulberg

“had come to suspect that the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the…

— Douglas Adams

“To understand the truth of everything, it took guts more than simply thinking.”

— Toba Beta

“I waited for him to find an answer. Minutes passed. It came to me that he had quit. He had glimpsed a glorious ideal,…

— John Gardner

“...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation…

— W. Somerset Maugham