Quotes by Haydon, Benjamin

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for >>

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects. >>

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a realit >>

Quotations about Learning

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating >>

It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. >>

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time! >>

This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.

Haydon, Benjamin