education Quotes

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.