“He would make a lovely corpse.”
- Charles Dickens

“I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.”
- Irvin S. Cobb

“I worship the quicksand he walks in.”
- Art Buchwald

Assumptions are in fact more powerful than assertions because they bypass the critical faculty and thereby create prejudice. My mind tends to accept the assumption and bypasses it in order to engage the argument which depends upon it.

– Herbert Schlossberg

The sole true end of education is simply this; to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

– Dorothy Sayers, in “The Lost Tools of Learning”

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

– Aristotle

Teachers will tell you that the laziest boy in the class is the one who works the hardest in the end. They mean this. If you give two students, say, a proposition in geometry to do, the one who is prepared to take the trouble will try to understand it. The lazy student will learn it by heart because, for the moment, that needs less effort. But six months later, when they are preparing for the exam, that lazy student is doing hours and hours of miserable drudgery over things the other student understands, and positively enjoys, in a few minutes. Laziness means more work in the long run.

– C.S. Lewis (from Mere Christianity)

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

– John Locke (English philosopher)

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

– Sir Francis Bacon

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is educated.

– Edith Hamilton (American classicist and educator)

Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

– Ambrose Bierce