Secular Knowledge

Famous quotes containing the words secular and/or knowledge:

    “Washington’s birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.”
    —Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)

    ““... Knowledge he shall unwind
    Through victories of the mind,
    Till, clambering at the cradle-side,
    He dreams himself his mother’s pride,
    All knowledge lost in trance
    Of sweeter ignorance.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)