Education and intelligence Quotes

Ignorance is not innocence but sin

There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance

It is mind which does the work of the world, so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplished

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost

Practice makes perfect, so be careful what you practice

The wise only possess ideas, the great part of mankind are possessed by them

The university brings out all abilities, including incapability

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty

It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the 'plan of creation,' 'unity of design,' etc..

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom use

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.