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| 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 |
| 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 |
| A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| 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 |
| In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit? | Aubrey Beardsley | 1872-1898, British Illustrator, Writer |
| A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. | Carl Van Doren | 1885-1950, American Critic, Biographer |
| One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them. | D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930, British Author |
| Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong. | David Fasold | |
| The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with. | Eleanor Holmes Norton | |
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| Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age. | Elliot Paul | |
| A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
| The age of the book is almost gone. | George Steiner | 1929-, French-born American Critic, Novelist |
| Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. | Gilbert K. Chesterton | 1874-1936, British Author |
| Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents. | Harry Mathews | 1930-, American Novelist |
| We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin. | Hugo Ball | 1886-1927, German Dadaist Poet |
| The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to. | Jean Rostand | 1894-1977, French Biologist, Writer |
| The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to. | Jean Rostand | 1894-1977, French Biologist, Writer |
| Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age. | John Greenleaf Whittier | 1807-1892, American Poet, Reformer, Author |
| Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and nonpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication. | Logan Pearsall Smith | 1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist |
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| The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars. | Nadine Gordimer | 1923-, South African Author |
| Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. | Octavio Paz | 1914-, Mexican Poet, Essayist |
| A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. | Robert Byrne | |
| A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. | Robertson Davies | 1913-, Canadian Novelist, Journalist |
| Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. | Roland Barthes | 1915-1980, French Semiologist |
| Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning. | Rosenstock Huessy | |
| Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged. | Saul Landau | |
| Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed | Sir William Temple | 1628-1699, British Diplomat, Essayist |
| Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. | Source Unknown | |
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| Books that have become classics -- books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal -- always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. | Thomas B. Aldrich | 1836-1907, American Writer, Editor |
| Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? | Walt Whitman | 1819-1892, American Poet |
| God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. | William Ellery Channing | 1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author |
| America is, therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's history shall reveal itself. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of Old Europe. | Georg Hegel | 1770-1831, German Philosopher |
| We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity -- gunpowder and romantic love. | Andre Maurois | 1885-1967, French Writer |
| I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win. | Arnold Palmer | 1929-, American Golfer |
| For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it. | Bonnie Blair | 1964-, American Speed Skater |
| We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active --not more happy --nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. | Edgar Allan Poe | 1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer |
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| The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680, French Classical Writer |
| We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't. | Frank A. Clark | |
| I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| They, that unnamed ''they,'' they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me. | Gregory Corso | 1930-, American Author |
| When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1811-1896, American Novelist, Antislavery Campaigner |
| The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. | Henry George | 1839-1897, American Social Reformer, Economist |
| An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. | James A. Michener | 1907-, American Writer |
| Invention is the talent of youth, as judgement is of age. | Jonathan Swift | 1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist |
| Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgement of age. | Jonathan Swift | 1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist |
| The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities. | Kahlil Gibran | 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist |
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