Intellectual Development Quotes

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.

Education is our passport to the future.

The inquiry, knowledge, and belief of truth is the sovereign good of human nature.

The good education of youth has been esteemed by wise men in all ages as the surest foundation of happiness.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.

We will acquire knowledge and science wherever they are to be found and we will stuff them into the head of every individual in the country. No limits, no conditions can be attached to knowledge and science.

You can't fix stupid. There's not a pill you can take, or a class you can go to.

A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Whatever the cost of our libraries is, it is cheap compared to the cost of an ignorant nation.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

No society has ever been great that didn't honor and foster learning.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

The value of making young people stupid, subject to an educational deficit has enormous currency in a society in which existing relations of power are normalized. Under such conditions, those who hold power accountable are reviewed as treasonous while critically engaged young people are denounced as un-American.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were encouraged to read at a very early age.

I didn't go to uni and although I don't have regrets in my life, I have two nephews and I'd encourage them to go to uni as I don't think you need to grow up too quick.

They will form citizens, heroes and geniuses.