Gratumstudium Quotes & Sayings

I tend to pull nuggets out of many books - rather than having a handful of books that serve as guiding lights. — Daniel H. Pink

Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt. — Walter Bagehot

Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical, and this is often how they are taught in school. — Jane Smiley

But if our philosophy tells us that each man is only a small part of the world, that his intelligence catches at best only phases and aspects in a coarse net of ideas, then, when we use our stereotypes, we tend to know that they are only stereotypes, to hold them lightly, to modify them gladly. We — Walter Lippmann

What I am not," he says, most truthfully, "that for me is God — Will Durant

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. — Samuel Butler