Quotessence
Home / Topics / Intelligence And Education Quotes

Intelligence And Education Quotes

Browse 23 quotes about Intelligence And Education.

Intelligence And Education Quotes

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

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

“The meaning of geography is as much a sealed book to the person of ordinary intelligence and education as the meaning of a great cathedral would be to a backwoodsman, and yet no cathedral can be more suggestive of past history in its many architectural forms than is the land about us, with its innumerable and marvellously significant geographic forms. It makes one grieve to think of opportunity for mental enjoyment that is last because of the failure of education in this respect.”

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”

“Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

“A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”

“That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already in the child, and whatever the stakes were, they would find a way to act as they needed to act. … Intelligence and education, which all these children had, apparently didn't make any important difference in human nature.”

“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.”

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”