Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.

I said I liked being half-educated; you were so much more surprised at everything when you were ignorant.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word …