Quote

Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

T. H. White

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

T. H. White
Age: 57 †
Born: 1906
Born: May 29
Died: 1964
Died: January 17
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Bombay
Terence Hanbury White
T. H. White
Tim White
Students
Wags
Looks
Learning
Alienate
Thing
Education
Sewers
Mind
Learn
Exhaust
Things
Fear
Devastated
Never
Inspirational
Tortured
World
Distrust
Dream
Regret
Regretting
Look

More quotes by T. H. White

Image
My boy, you shall be everything in the world, animal, vegetable, mineral, protista, or virus, for all I care-before I have done with you-but you will have to trust my superior backsight. The time is not yet ripe for you to be a hawk... so you may as well sit down for the moment and learn to be a human being.
T. H. White
Image
If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
T. H. White
Image
When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?
T. H. White
Image
If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.
T. H. White
Image
Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.
T. H. White
Image
It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.
T. H. White
Image
The miracle was that he had been allowed to do a miracle. And ever, says Mallory, Sir Lancelot wept, as he had been a child that had been beaten.
T. H. White
Image
It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.
T. H. White
Image
Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
T. H. White
Image
Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds
T. H. White
Image
If God is supposed to be merciful,' [Arthur] retorted, 'I don't see why He shouldn't allow people to stumble into heaven, just as well as climb there
T. H. White
Image
Cavall came simply, and gave him his heart and soul.
T. H. White
Image
Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.
T. H. White
Image
Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.
T. H. White
Image
He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to leap along in their wake, jumping at meanings, guessing, clutching at known words, and chuckling at complicated jokes as they suddenly dawned. He had the glee of the porpoise then, pouring and leaping through strange seas.
T. H. White
Image
It is good to put your life in other people's hands.
T. H. White
Image
I think I ought to have some eddication,said the Wart, I can't think of anything to do.
T. H. White
Image
You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your lover’s soul was not your own: it was not at your disposal you had a duty towards it.
T. H. White
Image
Kings can only use their best tools.
T. H. White
Image
But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.
T. H. White