"False modesty can be worse than arrogance."

“Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.”

“It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.”

“If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.”

“Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.”

“Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.”

“Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last weeks winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong.”

“As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.”

Source : James Joseph Sylvester (1870). “The Laws of Verse: Or Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical Translations, Together with an Annotated Reprint of the Inaugural Presidential Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association at Exeter”, p.119

“Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.”