Alfred Whitney Griswold Quotes

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

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Having an education is invaluable.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Read in order to live.

I just want to be educated.

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

My father was a classic intellectual. From him I learned devotion, and I also learned about the life of the mind.

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.