Education and Knowledge

Do not give your children moral and religious instruction unless you are quite sure they will not take it too seriously. Better be the mother of Henri Quatre and Nell Gwynne than of Robespierre and Queen Mary Tudor.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.

At the University every great treatise is postponed until its author attains impartial judgment and perfect knowledge. If a horse could wait as long for its shoes and would pay for them in advance, our blacksmiths would all be college dons.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.

IN UNIVERSITY THEY DON’T TELL YOU THAT THE GREATER PART OF THE LAW IS LEARNING TO TOLERATE FOOLS.

He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink: his intellect is not replenished.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like 'What I'm Going to be if I Grow up'.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Knowledge is power.