Thomas Arnold famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

  • I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

  • The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.

  • I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.

  • I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.

  • Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

  • An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

  • Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

  • Information is not knowledge.

  • Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained so easily. It must be worked for, — studied for, — thought for, — and more than all, it must be prayed for.