Education and intelligence Quotes

Enthusiastic admiration is the first principle of knowledge and its last.

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand

There is no worse screen to block out the spirit than confidence in our own intelligence

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back

An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of the cats is infinitely superior.

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides

Do you think yourself wise? Then there's a donkey inside your waistcoat

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish

The best teachers are those who have the freest command of thought and language.

Inquiry is human, blind obedience brutal.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

Thought constitutes the greatness of man.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.