Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon
More from: Edward Gibbon
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
I just want to keep learning. -
You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning. -
I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there. -
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one. -
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
More quotes by Edward Gibbon
- I was never less alone than when by myself.
- Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
- The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
- Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.