Overcome not knowing the right people by knowing more than the right people.
He that has a spirit of detail will do better in life than many who figured beyond him in the university.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
The noblest exercise of the mind within doors is study.
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are
The well-meaning people who talk of education as if it were a substance distributable by coupon in large or small quantities never exhibit any understanding of the truth that you cannot teach anybody anything that he does not want to learn.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
A well-educated population, trained by mental discipline and culture, and deeply imbued with the religious principle, is the strongest bulwark of a nation.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.