Logo
Quote by Robertson Davies
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe,

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. – Robertson Davies

Other quotes by Robertson Davies

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. – Robertson Davies

Category:
Future
Author
Robertson Davies
Read Quote

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need. – Robertson Davies

Category:
Age
Author
Robertson Davies
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Learning
category

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages. – Vivien Leigh

Category:
Learning

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius… he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. – William Godwin

Category:
Learning

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all. – Joy Page

Category:
Learning

Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival. – W. Edwards Deming

Category:
Learning

Random Quotes

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis. – Sally Ride

Category:
Science

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas – an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives. – Morris Raphael Cohen

Category:
Attitude

The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening – theres something to be said for that. – Ian Somerhalder

Category:
Morning

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf. – Robert Cecil

Category:
Faith