Higher/education

Famous quotes containing the words higher and/or education:

“Many, no doubt, are well disposed, but sluggish by constitution and habit, and they cannot conceive of a man who is actuated by higher motives than they are. Accordingly they pronounce this man insane, for they know that they could never act as he does, as long as they are themselves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Very likely education does not make very much difference.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)