Education Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Aristotle,
Martin H. Fischer,
Chinese Proverb,
Mark Twain,
H.G. Wells
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| Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. |
| - Abigail Adams |
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| The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. |
| - Antisthenes |
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| Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. |
| - Aristotle |
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| Education is the best provision for old age. |
| - Aristotle |
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| It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. |
| - Aristotle |
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| An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. |
| - Tallulah Bankhead |
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| Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. |
| - Daniel J. Boorstin |
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| My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had - every day I'm learning something new |
| - Richard Branson |
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| Well we all know people who've flunked, and they try and memorize and they try and spout back and they just...it doesn't work. The brain doesn't work that way. You've got to array facts on the theory structures answering the question "Why?" If you don't do that, you just cannot handle the world. |
| - Munger Charlie |
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| Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. |
| - Lord Chesterfield |
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| Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. |
| - Sir Winston Churchill |
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| A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. |
| - John Ciardi |
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| Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. |
| - Confucius |
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| As important as school was, I found that it could be very disruptive to a steady income. |
| - Michael Dell |
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| Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. |
| - John Dewey |
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| Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. |
| - Norman Douglas |
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| When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. |
| - Peter F. Drucker |
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| Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. |
| - Will Durant |
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| Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. |
| - Paul Eldridge |
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| We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Only the educated are free. |
| - Epictetus |
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| Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future. |
| - Euripides |
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| A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| Education should be exercise; it has become massage. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. |
| - Abraham Flexner |
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| Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. |
| - Malcolm S. Forbes |
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| Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. |
| - Henry Ford |
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| An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. |
| - Anatole France |
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| Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? |
| - Erich Fromm |
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| Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. |
| - Robert Frost |
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| Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. |
| - Dr. Thomas Fuller |
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| Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. |
| - John W. Gardner |
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| Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. |
| - James A. Garfield |
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| Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. |
| - Gail Godwin |
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| With just enough learning to misquote. |
| - George Gordon |
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| Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything. |
| - Benjamin Graham |
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| The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. |
| - Russell Green |
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| Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. |
| - Edward Everett Hale |
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| The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. |
| - Sydney J. Harris |
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| The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. |
| - Henry S. Haskins |
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| If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. |
| - Heinrich Heine |
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| Much learning does not teach understanding. |
| - Heraclitus |
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| Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. |
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn. |
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| He who opens a school door, closes a prison. |
| - Victor Hugo |
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| My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. |
| - Robert Maynard Hutchins |
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| The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. |
| - Robert Maynard Hutchins |
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| Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. |
| - Thomas Henry Huxley |
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| Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. |
| - Thomas Henry Huxley |
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| The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know. |
| - William Ralph Inge |
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| It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. |
| - Robert Greene Ingersoll |
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| Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. |
| - Clive James |
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| College isn't the place to go for ideas. |
| - Helen Keller |
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| Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. |
| - John Maynard Keynes |
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| Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them. |
| - Robert Kiyosaki |
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| That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. |
| - Doris Lessing |
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| I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. |
| - Abraham Lincoln |
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| The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. |
| - John Lubbock |
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| I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. |
| - Al McGuire |
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| To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. |
| - A.A. Milne |
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| I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. |
| - Wilson Mizner |
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| The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. |
| - Mohammed |
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| I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. |
| - Michel de Montaigne |
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| In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. |
| - Michel de Montaigne |
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| Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. |
| - Laurence J. Peter |
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| The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. |
| - Plato |
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| The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. |
| - Plutarch |
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| To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. |
| - Mary Pettibone Poole |
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| Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. |
| - Alexander Pope |
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| Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. |
| - Ezra Pound |
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| When the student is ready, the master appears. |
| - Buddhist Proverb |
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| Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. |
| - Chinese Proverb |
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| Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. |
| - Chinese Proverb |
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| A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. |
| - Chinese Proverb |
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| The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. |
| - Will Rogers |
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| There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. |
| - Will Rogers |
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| The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. |
| - Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. |
| - Theodore Roosevelt |
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| The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. |
| - George Santayana |
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| The wisest mind has something yet to learn. |
| - George Santayana |
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| Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. |
| - Pete Seeger |
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| Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. |
| - Pete Seeger |
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| A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| Education has for its object the formation of character. |
| - Herbert Spencer |
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| The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. |
| - Herbert Spencer |
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| It is only the ignorant who despise education. |
| - Publilius Syrus |
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| Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. |
| - Thomas Szasz |
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| What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. |
| - Alvin Toffler |
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| Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| The founding fathers... provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you. |
| - John Updike |
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| People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong. |
| - Bill Vaughan |
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| Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. |
| - Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut |
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| His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken. |
| - H.G. Wells |
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| You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. |
| - H.G. Wells |
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| Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. |
| - H.G. Wells |
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| Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. |
| - John Wooden |
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| Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. |
| - William Butler Yeats |
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