Chinses Proverb Quotes

Just experience tells in every soil That those who think must govern those that toil

Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked it, and the educated man counted in his circle, however large or small it was, as the mighty, the powerful, the imposing one: for he was an authority.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the mind.

The empires of the future are empires of mind.

The possession of knowledge has always been dangerous.

To enter upon rulership of a country but not preserve its scholars will result in the downfall of the country.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

Knowledge is your weapon...Kill them with it.

There is the work of great men and there is the work of little men. Therefore it is said, 'Some labor with their minds and some labor with their strength. Those who labor with their minds govern others; those who labor with their strength are governed by others.'1 Those who are governed by others support them; those who govern them are supported by them. This is a universal principle.

If a great multitude of men should call one of their number King, unless this instituted Prince, appear in greater visible splendor then others, can reward those that obey and please him, and do the contrary to others; his Institution signifies little, even although he chance to have greater corporal or mental faculties, than any other of the number

A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars.

When people are educated, class distinction disappears.

The most bitter pain among men: to have much knowledge but little power.

I do not wish to see men of culture asking to be entrusted with power

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

Sex and race, because they are easy, visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups, and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends.

In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement.

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

… a system under which a few supposedly superior intellects, self-appointed, would direct the mating and the movements of the mass of mankind.

A Plowman on his knees is higher than a Gentleman on his legs.