Famous quotes containing the words learning, community and/or branch:
“You may judge a man’s learning by the marks in his books.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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 (1871–1922)