Quote by Lafcadio Hearn
For this reason, to study English literature without some general

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave ones literary education very incomplete. – Lafcadio Hearn

Other quotes by Lafcadio Hearn

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved. – Lafcadio Hearn

Category:
Happiness
Read Quote

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found – indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese. – Lafcadio Hearn

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry. – Lafcadio Hearn

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Education
category

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. – Henry Adams

Category:
Education

If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop. – Nicholas Negroponte

Category:
Education

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing. – David Brin

Category:
Education

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. – Robert M. Hutchins

Category:
Education

Random Quotes

My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time. – Linda Sunshine

Category:
Sisters

For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, The voice follows… the voice follows everything about you… who you are. – Betty Buckley

Category:
teacher

Where will you plant your grief-seeds? We need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire. – Rumi

Category:
Rumi

I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also. – John Bunyan

Category:
Christianity