Woodrow Wilson Quotes

I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Learning is an unwelcome guest to the Devil, and therefore he would fain starve it out …. If ever there be any Considerable Blow given to the Devil's Kingdom, it must be, by Youth Excellently Educated.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thinking but of critical thinking.

My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.

Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path.

For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.

Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.

A well organized education should not be one which prepares students for a good remuneration alone. It should be one that can help and guide them towards acquiring clear thinking, a fruitful mind, and an elevated spirit.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.

The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.

If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important.

Am I an intellectual? I don't think so. Less than people sometimes think, I have to say. But more than some others think.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.