Edith Wharton Ideas Quotations

It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look forth on the world. But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? He shivered a little, remembering some of the new ideas in his scientific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave-fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no use for them.

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.

Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.