It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure. – John Boyd Orr

English girls schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century. – Mary Augusta Ward