Laurence Sterne Quotes on Knowledge

4 quotes

  1. The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

  2. Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them?

  3. I am convinced, Yorick, continued my father, half reading and half discoursing, that there is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world; and that the soul of man has shorter ways of going to work, in furnishing itself with knowledge and instruction, than we generally take with it.

  4. A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.

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