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Intellectual Development Library:  Quotations

"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality." ~ Albert Einstein

"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." ~ Robert Frost

"It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought ~ that is to be educated." ~ Edith Hamilton

"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." ~ Nelson Mandela

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." ~ Rene Descartes

"Common sense is not so common." ~ Voltaire

"Wit is educated insolence." ~ Aristotle

"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks." ~ Charlotte Brontë

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." ~ Aristotle

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." ~ Henry Brooks Adams

"All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth." ~ Aristotle

"The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values." ~ William R. Inge

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

"I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells." ~ Dr. Seuss

"Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons." ~ Will Cuppy

"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again." ~Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

 

"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all." ~Thomas Szasz, 1973

 

 

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