Stephen Fry Quotes

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

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

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

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.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

The value of a good education has never left me.

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

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

I hope that people understand that with education, we can be our own superhero.

The diploma has become a brand and learning should never be about a brand. Learning, the real kind, actually never ends.

When you're educated, it allows you to be more worldly. It's more than just what happens in a classroom.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so, expensively and laboriously, have lost all before they arrive at my age-& remain like Swift's Stulbruggs-cut and dry for life, making no use of their earlier-gained treasures:-whereas, I seem to be on the threshold of knowledge.

I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.