Jewish Proverb Quotes

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

What could be wiser and to give people who can think the leisure in which to do it.

To enter upon rulership of a country but not preserve its scholars will result in the downfall of the country.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

Learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

One of my secret nerdy things is that I love education.

My parents wanted me to go to school.

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.