Lewis Carroll Quotes

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

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

Books, the children of the brain.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

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

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

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

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

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.