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What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.
Oct 1, 2025
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.
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 quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
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.
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.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
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.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
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.
Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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.
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.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
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