Education and intelligence Quotes

“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom use”

“An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery”

“Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots”

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

“Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden”

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

“Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match”

“We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.”

“In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.”

“He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose”

“One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything”

“To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts”

“A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out”

“A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense”

“What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?”

“Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.”

“Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all”

“Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think”

“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.”

“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience”