Education and intelligence Quotes

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied.

Many receive advice; few profit from it.

The thinker serves it by his intellect, and as a light upon its path.

I keep up talk with myself about politics, love, taste, or philosophy;

For repose is not the end of education; its end is a noble unrest, an ever renewed awaking from the dead, a ceaseless questioning of the past for the interpretation of the future, an urging on of the motions of life, which had better far be accelerated into fever, than retarded into lethargy.

What God hath made, into that let man inquire.

The reading, not of all books, but especially of such as have been written by persons capable of conveying proper instruction, for it is a species of conversation we hold with their authors.

It does not suffice that the understanding be good - it must be well applied.

The first degree contains only notions so clear of themselves that they can be acquired without meditation.

This sort of men fancied that philosophy was to be studied like the Aeneid or Odyssey, and that the true reading of nature was to be detected by the collation of texts.

Man is a growth by law, and not a creation by artifice, and cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things.

This truth, philosophy, though eagle-eyed In nature's tendencies, oft overlooks; And, having found his own mind, in the rest disclaims it.

So few people who can write know anything.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people that can write know anything.

For then Reason, like a bad Hound, spends upon a false Scent, and forsakes the question first started.

The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.

Philosophers have explained space. They have not explained time.

And when I say "the human machine" I mean the brain and the body—and chiefly the brain.

The human machine is an apparatus of brain and muscle for enabling the Ego to develop freely in the universe by which it is surrounded, without friction.