Education and Knowledge

I am putting old heads on your young shoulders … all my pupils are the crème de la crème.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

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

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

The learn’d is happy nature to explore,

Men must be taught as if you taught them not,

A little learning is a dangerous thing;

’Tis education forms the common mind,

Unlearn’d, he knew no schoolman’s subtle art,

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Good heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism;

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

How charming is divine philosophy!

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

A whaleship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.

No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Books think for me.