Famous quotes containing the words learning, community and/or branch:
“We have got to know what both life and death are, before we can begin to live after our own fashion. Let us be learning our a-b- cs as soon as possible.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all expectations, from the springtime hedge which seems already too full, while the purely formal imitation of variety ... is but void and uniformity, that is, that which is most opposed to variety....”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)