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Quote 3638
The sharp eye notes specific points and differences—it seizes upon the individuality of the thing.by: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3624
The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 3604
In the world of values, Nature in itself is neutral, neither good nor bad, deserving of neither admiration nor censure.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3599
To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3582
Knowledge and love are both indefinitely extensible; therefore, however good a life may be, a better life can be imagined.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3575
There is always a suggestion of some sort, either the end of a train of thought or a new sensation; and there is an action ensuing, either the movement of a muscle or set of muscles, or the fixing of attention upon something.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3523
In everything but in criticism it is necessary to specialize.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3518
Without standards, without touchstones, without principles, without knowledge, it appears to be regarded as the one calling for which no equipment and no training are needed.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3517
Criticism is to Literature what legislation and government are to States.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3513
We may believe what goes beyond our experience, only when it is inferred from that experience by the assumption that what we do not know is like what we know.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3510
The beliefs about right and wrong which guide our actions in dealing with men in society, and the beliefs about physical nature which guide our actions in dealing with animate and inanimate bodies, these never suffer from investigation; they can take care of themselves.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3503
I seldom tire of retracing with my own hand the ipsissima verba whereby great and truly notable gifts have been bestowed upon nations or Universities or even municipalities for the advancement of learning and the spread of science.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3495
The Bodleian at this moment harbours within its walls well-nigh half a million of printed volumes, some scores of precious manuscripts in all the tongues, and has become a name famous throughout the whole civilized world.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3491
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.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3490
And when I say "the human machine" I mean the brain and the body—and chiefly the brain.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3478
Philosophers have explained space. They have not explained time.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3468
The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3451
For then Reason, like a bad Hound, spends upon a false Scent, and forsakes the question first started.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3440
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people that can write know anything.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3438
So few people who can write know anything.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3435
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3430
It is never too late to be wise.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 3415
This truth, philosophy, though eagle-eyed In nature's tendencies, oft overlooks; And, having found his own mind, in the rest disclaims it.by: William CowperShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3403
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.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3398
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.by: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3397
The first degree contains only notions so clear of themselves that they can be acquired without meditation.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3395
My mind is no better than another's, but I have been lucky enough to chance on certain ways, which have led me to a certain method by means of which it seems to me that I may by degrees augment my knowledge to the modest measure of my intellect and my length of days.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3393
It does not suffice that the understanding be good - it must be well applied.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3392
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.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3391
I think, therefore I am.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3389
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3385
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes, I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written.by: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3383
What God hath made, into that let man inquire.by: MacDonaldShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3369
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.by: MacDonaldShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3361
I keep up talk with myself about politics, love, taste, or philosophy;by: Denis DiderotShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3351
The thinker serves it by his intellect, and as a light upon its path.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3350
Many receive advice; few profit from it.by: Publilius SyrusShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3341
Great wits are sure to madness near allied.by: John DrydenShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3308
A life without investigation is not worth living.by: SocratesShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3293
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 3289
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.by: George EliotShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3266
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.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3238
Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others.by: William HazlittShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3235
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.by: Adam SmithShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3215
Thought constitutes the greatness of man.by: Blaise PascalShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3214
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.by: Blaise PascalShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3210
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.by: Samuel JohnsonShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3207
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.by: William PennShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3206
Inquiry is human, blind obedience brutal.by: William PennShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3196
The best teachers are those who have the freest command of thought and language.by: XenophonShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3165
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 3071
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polishby: Anne BradstreetShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 3040
Do you think yourself wise? Then there's a donkey inside your waistcoatShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 3018
Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sidesby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 3004
One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinkingby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 3000
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a manby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2992
The things we really know are not the things we have merely read about or heard about, but the things we have lived, have experienced, have been sensible ofShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2979
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of the cats is infinitely superior.by: Hyppolyte TaineShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2963
A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a childShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2947
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we haveby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2943
Logic is the anatomy of thoughtby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 2942
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experienceby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2936
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.by: John LockeShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2897
Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they thinkShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2891
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at allShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2883
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 2881
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?Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2872
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 senseShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2869
A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look outShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2863
To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debtsShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2862
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everythingShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 2846
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to loseShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 2838
In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.by: Charles LambShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2821
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.by: Charles LambShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2792
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a matchby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2786
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same timeby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 2781
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaidenby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 2774
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks backby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiotsby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2701
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 mysteryby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2669
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom useShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2647
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a foolShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2646
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2624
The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.by: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2602
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughtsShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2599
It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the 'plan of creation,' 'unity of design,' etc..Showing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2589
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveriesShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2551
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of crueltyShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2537
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn thingsShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 2524
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to knowShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2520
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriouslyShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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The university brings out all abilities, including incapabilityby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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The wise only possess ideas, the great part of mankind are possessed by themShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2482
Practice makes perfect, so be careful what you practiceShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2478
It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a stateShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2465
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lostShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2463
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new powerShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 2460
It is mind which does the work of the world, so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplishedShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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Quote 2451
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignoranceShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
Quote 2438
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignityShowing Quotes on Education and intelligence
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