The intelligentsia are those who have been educated beyond their intelligence.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.

There is no short cut, no patent tram-road, to wisdom: after all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must be still trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.

When land is gone and money's spent, Then learning is most excellent.

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness

Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity.

On the other hand, because fortune is needed as an addition, some hold good fortune to be identical with Happiness: which it is not, for even this in excess is a hindrance, and perhaps then has no right to be called good fortune since it is good only in so far as it contributes to Happiness.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Reason can only work with the experience available to it. Wisdom atrophies if it is not walked on a regular basis.