King James I Quotes

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

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

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.

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

Kings need the company of the intelligent far more than the intelligent need the company of kings.

The true grandeur and excellence of a prince ... does not consist in honors, in gold, in purple, and other luxuries of fortune, but in prudence, wisdom and knowledge.

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

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

This is a universal human dream - that brains, not brawn, will rule - and the fact that America has the world's finest institutions of higher education may be our greatest single national asset.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

When I was in grad school, I wanted to be in academia forever.

I was born in Middletown, Connecticut, while my dad was getting his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and anthropology at Wesleyan University.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

A society without intellectuals is like a body without a head

I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!

Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.

Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

A little knowledge can go a long way.