Quotes on Education
A good education is a foundation for a better future.
Elizabeth Warren
A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.
Anne Bishop
By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Aristotle
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
Confucius
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain
Education cost money, but then so does ignorance.
Claus Moser
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett
Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward.
George Weah
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.
Eric Fromm
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
W.B. Yeats
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G.K. Chesterton
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
Plato
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Rober Frost
Education is the ability to meet life’s situations.
Dr. John G. Hibben
Education is the art of making man ethical.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Chanakya
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Socrates
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
Ernest Dimnet
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Education is the mother of leadership.
Wendell Willkie
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.
Brigham Young
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.
John Adams
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Peter Brougham
Education must not simply teach work , it must teach Life.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Education should light a fire within us to improve us and help our world.
Sarah Josepf
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C.S. Lewis
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
William Haley
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Jane Austen
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. Light! Give me light! was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.
Helen Keller
I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
Steve Irwin
I don’t want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.
Malala Yousafzai
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim Rohn
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Andy McIntyre
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King Jr.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert G. Ingersoll
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
Agnes Repplierg
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time – for we are bound by that – but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
T.S. Eliot
It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
Cormac McCarthy
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
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France
No man who worships education has got the best out of education…. Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.
G.K. Chesterton
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Isaac Asimov
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Bill Beattie
The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.
George Eastman
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris
They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace.
Malala Yousafzai
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.
MurielSpark
Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.
Abraham Lincoln
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Henry David Thoreau
What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul.
Joseph Addison
When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.
John Taylor Gatto
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Fromm
With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.
Malala Yousafzai
Knowledge Quotes
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
Shakuntala Devi
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Mark Twain
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Ben Franklin
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan
Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.
Claire Fagin
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William Burroughs
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
Learning Quotes
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
Chinese proverb
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
Plato
Education is learning what you didn’t know you didn’t know.
George Boas
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities, that’s training or instruction, but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
Thomas Moore
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
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
Claude Bernard
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Chinese Proverb
Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.
Chinese proverb
Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.
Dr. W. Edwards Deming
Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.
John Holt
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
John Hersey
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
Mark Twain
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
B.B. King
The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.
B.B. King
The learning process continues until the day you die.
Kirk Douglas
The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.
Jack Nicholson
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Lloyd Alexander
Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning.
Anton Chekhov
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
Clay P. Bedford
You cannot open a book without learning something.
Confucius
Teacher Quotes
A Teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry B Adams
A Teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
Thomas Carruthers
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my Teacher for living well.
Alexander the Great
The best Teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.
Alexandra K. Trenfor
The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his mistakes. The more a child’s work is full of these individual mistakes the more wonderful it is. And the more a Teacher removes them from the child’s work the duller, more desolate and impersonal it becomes.
Franz Cizek
School Quotes
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Tom Bodett
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
Other Inspirational Quotes of Education and Knowledge
A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.
Mark Twain
A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.
Helen Keller
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.
David M. Burns
All men by nature desire to know.
Aristotle
All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.
Martin Fisher
All things good to know are difficult to learn.
Greek proverb
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.
Wayne Dyer
By seeking and blundering we learn.
Johan Wolfgan von Goethe
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Ernest Dimnet
Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John R. Wooden
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Jim Rohn
Every artist was at first an amateur.
Ralp W.Emerson
Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.
George Evans
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Aristotle
I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.
Ann Brashares
I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time.
Mary Ann Shaffer Annie Barrows
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Steven Wright
If a man is a fool, you don’t train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.
Desmond Bagley
If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
Chinese proverb
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
I’ve learned… that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
Andy Rooney
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles F. Kettering
Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.
Roy T. Bennett
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
Claude Bernard
Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.
Edward De Bono
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
John Keats
One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
Sophocles
Only the educated are free.
Epictetus
People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.
Bill Vaughan
Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.
Frank Herbert
Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Zig Ziglar
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Arthur Ashe
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Leonardo da Vinci
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
Og Mandino
Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.
Chinese proverb
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
Aristotle
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Gloria Steinem
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg — not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
William R. Inge
The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.
Michel Legrand
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Voltaire
The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
Dr. Seuss
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change.
Carl Rogers
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
Mark Twain
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
Buckminster Fuller
They know enough who know how to learn.
Henry Adams
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Roger Lewin
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Goethe
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
John Newton
We learn from failure, not from success!
Bram Stoker
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
Alfred Mercier
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
Walter Cronkite
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Peter Drucker
You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
Conrad Hall
You learn something everyday, if you pay attention.
Ray LeBlond
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
Douglas Adams
You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.
Abraham Maslow
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Zig Ziglar
Your library is your paradise.
Desiderius Erasmus
A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.