Ann Plato famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

  • True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

  • Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

  • If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

  • Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

  • It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

  • But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.

  • I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

  • If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach...

  • Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some divine surpriseFlash deep suffusion of celestial dyes: When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed, And the heart's secret was at once confessed?