"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."
― Robert Green Ingersoll
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Education
More From Robert Green Ingersoll
- "It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."
- "The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others."
- "My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so."
More In Education
- "Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it."― Joseph Lancaster
- "I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will – that’s just the bottom line."― Bo Jackson
- "I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities."― Clay Aiken