| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 7975 |
| QUOTATION: | Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather.... When it comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973), British author; born in Ireland. A Time in Rome, ch. 1 (1960). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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