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

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That’s what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

If the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.

Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

That which is evil is soon learned. 

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.