Sydney Smith Quotes

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

I was a super nerd in school.

Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

There are so many people who are clever. There are 8000 people at Princeton who are more clever than the three of us at this table. BUT, we have the ability to give something that they don't have...which is us.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

Whatever education a university or institutes of higher education imparts, it must achieve the global level of benchmarking given the vastness and diversity of global village we live in today.

Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less important relationships of life. Full education comes only when there is a responsible share on the part of each person, in proportion to capacity, in shaping the aims and policies of the social groups to which he belongs.

I find no intellect comparable to my own

I went to great schools. Wharton School, a lot of great places.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.

The highest priority you can have is education.

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.

I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there are individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence.

They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops, that there's a temptation to miss your own life in pursuing the lives of your betters. It makes you wise in some ways, but it can make you a blindfolded fool in others.

I went to Harvard High because it was a great school. That it happened to be a military school was just a part of it. I gained from the discipline there.

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

With all the things that you could be, you never could learn how to be me.

She used to be a teacher but she has no class now.