Quotes
Quotes about Wit
In light of activists' global boycotts of war profiteers, globalization begins to look evitable. We reverse imperialist's sanctions with the people's sanctions.
Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor.
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.
Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier, in full military array.
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. [Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.]
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
