Education and Knowledge

The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing—to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.

You have a gift, sir, (thank your education),

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Atque inter silvas Academi quaerere verum.

Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,

I’m very good at integral and differential calculus,

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Minerva House … where some twenty girls … acquired a smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

Now, what I want is, Facts … Facts alone are wanted in life.

For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;

In heads replete with thoughts of other men;