Quotes on Intelligence And Education

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already in the child, and whatever the stakes were, they would find a way to act as they needed to act. … Intelligence and education, which all these children had, apparently didn't make any important difference in human nature.

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.