Educational Sayings
54 sayings found from the Early Modern era from 54 authors
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I have a clear conscience, and that is all that matters.
I am a pupil and I need teachers.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
My conscience is clear.
I learn more from my enemies than from my friends.
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
The greatest comfort of man in this life is the knowledge that he has done his duty.
The wisdom of the learned is like a deep well, but the wisdom of the common people is like a running stream.
The most useful and honorable science is that of man; and the most properly studied book is the world.
The greatest good is the knowledge of truth, and the greatest evil is error.
All knowledge degenerates into probability.
A man's conscience and his judgement are the same thing, and as the judgement, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole of nature.
There is nothing in the intellect that was not previously in the senses, except the intellect itself.
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Men are not more naturally brave than women, nor more naturally rational. They are only rendered so by education.
They have no schools among them, but such as are public and free.
He who learns from everyone is a wise man; he who learns from no one is a fool.
The last thing one discovers in writing a book is what to put first.