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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. ”
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. ”
I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains. ”
Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings. ”
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ”
The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge. ”
The true method of knowledge is experiment. ”
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. ”
All real education is the architecture of the soul. ”
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. ”