Famous quotes containing the words literary and/or theories:
“Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as “spectacles” to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions.... The learned are mere literary drudges.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)