“The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Education
R. D. Hitchcock on Character and Education
Anatole France on Education
“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.” Continue reading
Josh Billings on Experience
“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.” Continue reading
Plutarch on Wisdom
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” Continue reading
Walt Disney on Movies
“Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.” Continue reading
Enrico Fermi on Knowledge
“It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.” Continue reading
William G. McAdoo on Ignorance
“It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.” Continue reading
Michel De Montaigne on Education
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.” Continue reading
Confucius on Wisdom
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” Continue reading
Thomas Carlyle on Education
“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.” Continue reading
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