Intelligent Quotes

“Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”

“Tim was so learned, that he could name a horse in nine languages. So ignorant, that he bought a cow to ride on.”

“But are there not many fascists in your country?”
“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the times comes.”
“But you cannot destroy them until they rebel?”
“No,” Robert Jordan said. “We cannot destroy them. But we can educate the people so that they will fear fascism and recognize it as it appears and combat it.”

“One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education… The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books, but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.”

“The only rational way of educating is to be an example—if one can’t help it, a warning example.”

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”