If you sincerely desire a _truly_ well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and “nutty”. You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, _no matter what_. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket… even if you never
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.