“The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.” SoulTruthSchoolIndividualSidesEducationConsciousnessMassMajorityConstantErrorsUniversityNewspapersPropagandaIsolatedRepetitionEncyclopediaHarbour Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.” EndsAgeSidesEducationProduceGeniusIndispensable Author:Isaac D'Israeli
“I went to a women's college. ... it was a little like learning to swim while holding on to the side of the pool; I didn't learn the arm movements until after I graduated, but by that time I was one hell of a kicker.” LittlesSidesEducationHellMovementCollegeArmsSwimPoolHolding OnKickers Book:Living Out Loud Source: Living Out Loud
“When I read educational articles it often seems to me that this important side of the matter, the purely personal side, is not emphasized enough; the fact that it is so much more agreeable and interesting to be an educated person than not. The sheer pleasure of being educated does not seem to be stressed.” PersonsDoeImportantMatterEnoughFactsSeemsSidesPleasureInterestingEducationEducationalEducatedArticlesSheerStressedEducated Person Author:Edith Hamilton
“If women were once permitted to read Sophocles and work with logarithms, or to nibble at any side of the apple of knowledge, there would be an end forever to their sewing on buttons and embroidering slippers.” IfsEndsWould BeWomenSidesEducationForeverApplesButtonsSewingSlippers Book:A Voice from the South Source: A Voice from the South
“Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.” KnowsMindHumansWellsMayStillsReasonWholeUseTruthFormPeaceSidesViewsCommonEducationKnowledgeVirtueEffectsObjectsIgnoranceCuriosityPerceiveArroganceSensibleSuperficialDefectsVulgarFamiliarityMortification Author:Samuel Johnson
“The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.” SidesPleasureCommonEducationStudyHabitDefectsIdlenessWeariness Author:Francois Fenelon