“A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge”
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“A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge”
“It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity”
“Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance”
“It is mind which does the work of the world, so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplished”
“Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power”
“Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost”
“It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state”
“Practice makes perfect, so be careful what you practice”
“The wise only possess ideas, the great part of mankind are possessed by them”
“The university brings out all abilities, including incapability”
“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously”
“Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know”
“The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things”
“Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty”
“I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries”
“It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the 'plan of creation,' 'unity of design,' etc..”
“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts”
“The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.”
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. ”
“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool ”