“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense
“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught
“The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
“Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice
“Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man
“For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense
“A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge
“Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know