Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

We are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.

A preacher can always improve, no matter how gifted he is.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!

Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.