Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Investigate, educate and organize.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
