~Love at the lips was touch~
~As sweet as I could bear~
~And once that seemed too much~
~I lived upon the air~
Wit is educated insolence.
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Common sense is not so common.
A witty saying proves nothing.
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
~Benjamin Disraeli
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
It's very hard to know what wisdom is.
The average person thinks he isn’t.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity... An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
It's a poor memory that only works backward.
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Cogito, ergo sum.
-Homer Simpson
Couldn't resist. Love your quotes.