His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.
Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.