Education and Knowledge

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education .

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.