The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.
I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?
A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
Contrary to popular belief, Oxford has the highest concentration of dull-witted, stupid, narrow-minded people anywhere in the British Isles.
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.