Education and intelligence Quotes

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

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind. An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't

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

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

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

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again

Know or listen to those who know

Only the educated are free

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power

Cleverness is not wisdom

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

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago