| Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
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| "We learn from failure, not from success!" | Bram Stoker | Dracula |  |
| . . . but beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied. | Sir Max Beerbohm | Zuleika Dobson | |
| "Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will." | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss | |
| Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections. Never wonder. By means of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, settle everything somehow, and never wonder. | Charles Dickens | Hard Times | |
| "NOW, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!" | Charles Dickens | Hard Times | |
| It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted. | George Eliot | Middlemarch | |
| They had been brought up in the School of Hard Knocks. | George Ade | Knocking the Neighbors | |
| "The proper study of mankind is books." | Aldous Huxley | Crome Yellow | |
| All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. | Anne Bronte | Agnes Grey | |
| "Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,"' the Mock Turtle replied; "and then the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision." | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | |
| "There is no education like adversity." | Benjamin Disraeli | Endymion | |
| Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | |
| "I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship." | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | |
| No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. | Charles Dickens | Our Mutual Friend | |
| There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. | Anthony Trollope | Barchester Towers | |
| "I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square." | Oscar Wilde | The Importance of Being Earnest | |
| A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. | James Joyce | Ulysses | |
| Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come. | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | |
| Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting. | P. G. Wodehouse | The Man Upstairs | |
| Ignorance is the parent of fear . . . | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | |
