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In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned. | A. N. Wilson | |
A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. | A. P. Herbert | 1890-1971, British Author, Politician |
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favourites of the nursery. | A. S. W. Rosenbach | |
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. | Abigail Adams | 1744-1818, American Letter Writer |
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance. | Abigail Van Buren | American Journalist, Columnist |
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
It is always in season for old men to learn. | Aeschylus | BC 525-456, Greek Dramatist |
Slow and steady wins the race. | Aesop | 620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist |
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. | Aharon Appelfeld | 1932-, Israeli Novelist |
I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best. | Akeem Olajuwon | American Basketball Player |
The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself. | Al-Nuri | |
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. | Alan Bennett | 1934-, British Playwright |
Spel chekers, hoo neeeds em? | Alan James Bean | |
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. | Albert Edward Wiggam | |
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious. | Albert Schweitzer | 1875-1965, German Born Medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician, and Philosopher |
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --the belief that the here and now is all there is. | Allan Bloom | 1930-1992, American Educator, Author |
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. | Allan Bloom | 1930-1992, American Educator, Author |
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. | Alvin Kernan | 1923-, American Educator |
Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. | American Proverb | Sayings of American Origin |
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
All books are either dreams or swords. | Amy Lowell | 1874-1925, American Poet, Critic |
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. | Amy Lowell | 1874-1925, American Poet, Critic |
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people. | Andre Maurois | 1885-1967, French Writer |
What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books. | Andre Sinyavsky | |
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. | Andrea Dworkin | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. | Andrea Dworkin | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. | Aneurin Bevan | 1897-1960, British Labor Politician |
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. | Angela Carter | 1940-1992, British Author |
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. | Anita Brookner | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | 1906-, American Author |
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