Education and intelligence Quotes

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction

I think, therefore I am.

It is never too late to be wise.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

A life without investigation is not worth living.

Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes, I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written.

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited

The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18