4 Laurence Sterne Quotes on Knowledge

Laurence Sterne quotes on knowledge

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

23. 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?

25. 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.

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