Education and intelligence Quotes

The Bodleian at this moment harbours within its walls well-nigh half a million of printed volumes, some scores of precious manuscripts in all the tongues, and has become a name famous throughout the whole civilized world.

I seldom tire of retracing with my own hand the ipsissima verba whereby great and truly notable gifts have been bestowed upon nations or Universities or even municipalities for the advancement of learning and the spread of science.

The beliefs about right and wrong which guide our actions in dealing with men in society, and the beliefs about physical nature which guide our actions in dealing with animate and inanimate bodies, these never suffer from investigation; they can take care of themselves.

We may believe what goes beyond our experience, only when it is inferred from that experience by the assumption that what we do not know is like what we know.

Criticism is to Literature what legislation and government are to States.

Without standards, without touchstones, without principles, without knowledge, it appears to be regarded as the one calling for which no equipment and no training are needed.

In everything but in criticism it is necessary to specialize.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much

Experience is not enough in itself - it has to be weighed, ordered and digested, and we have to draw the right conclusions from it

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious

In youth we learn; in age we understand

All men by nature desire knowledge

Experience is the teacher of all things

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer

Time bears away all things, even our minds

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach