Education and intelligence Quotes

All experience is an arch to build upon

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know

If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it form him

I am not young enough to know everything.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience

experience is the only prophecy of wise men