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Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 3071
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polishShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3040
Do you think yourself wise? Then there's a donkey inside your waistcoatShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sidesShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinkingShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a manShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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The things we really know are not the things we have merely read about or heard about, but the things we have lived, have experienced, have been sensible ofShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2979
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of the cats is infinitely superior.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2963
A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a childShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2947
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we haveShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Logic is the anatomy of thoughtShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experienceShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2936
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2897
Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they thinkShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2891
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at allShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2883
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 2881
What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good senseShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2869
A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look outShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2863
To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debtsShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2862
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everythingShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 2846
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to loseShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 2838
In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2821
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2792
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a matchShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2786
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same timeShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 2781
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaidenShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 2774
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks backShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiotsShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaustShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2701
An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mysteryShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Wisdom is the supreme part of happinessShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom useShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a foolShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughtsShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the 'plan of creation,' 'unity of design,' etc..Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveriesShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of crueltyShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn thingsShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to knowShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriouslyShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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The university brings out all abilities, including incapabilityShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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The wise only possess ideas, the great part of mankind are possessed by themShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2482
Practice makes perfect, so be careful what you practiceShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a stateShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lostShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2463
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new powerShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 2460
It is mind which does the work of the world, so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplishedShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignoranceShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 2438
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignityShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 2436
A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledgeShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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There is no worse screen to block out the spirit than confidence in our own intelligenceShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truthShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understandShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Ignorance is not innocence but sinShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2166
Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his handShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject . . . The greatest torture in the world for most people is to thinkShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best to at least rearrange their prejudices once in a whileShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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One thought fills immensityShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instructionShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wiseShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Enthusiastic admiration is the first principle of knowledge and its last.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of educationShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evilShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 2015
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defenseShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2008
He listens well who takes notes.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 1998
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and wellShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 1996
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besidesShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 1995
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the manShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 1986
Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educatorsShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 1983
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influencesShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 1981
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorantShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above anotherShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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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 prejudiceShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortuneShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideasShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soulShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothingShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the bodyShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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They know enough who know how to learnShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's ownShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligenceShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stopsShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working orderShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken menShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Wisdom is found only in truthShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdomShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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The truest wisdom is a resolute determinationShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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The doors of wisdom are never shutShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingersShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his ownShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdomShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence