Education and intelligence Quotes

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom

Wisdom is found only in truth

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own

They know enough who know how to learn

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune

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 prejudice

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man