| "When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest." »William Hazlitt |
| "No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject." »Cicero |
| "Grasp the subject, the words will follow." »Cato the Elder |
| "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." »Samuel Johnson |
| "Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true." »Bertrand Russell |
| "Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject." »George Santayana |
| "The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him." »Rachel Carson |
| "When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course." »Peter Drucker |
| "Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." »G. K. Chesterton |
| "Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough." »Groucho Marx |
| "An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them." »Werner Karl Heisenberg |
| "The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only." »Thomas Hobbes |
| "His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it." »Paterculus |
| "If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating." »Leigh Hunt |
| "Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns." »John Maurice Clark |
| "One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun." »Elmer Davis |
| "I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time..." »Charles Dickens |
| "Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically." »Calvin Trillin |
| "If you had a school for professional fireworks people, I don't think you could cover fuses in just one class. It's just too rich a subject." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms." »William Bradford |
| "I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light." »Isaac Newton |
| "I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world." »Helena Rubinstein |
| "Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables 'Do not try.'" »Dan Parker |
| "Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance." »William Wirt |
| "Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther." »Isaac Watts |
| "There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person." »G. K. Chesterton |
| "I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person." »Jane Austen |
| "The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it." »Paul Klee |
| "So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation." »Michel de Montaigne |
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