Motivational Quotes

Education

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

- Evan Esar

Best Quotes about Education

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Diogenes Laertius

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Rogers, Carl

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Thoreau, Henry David

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

If nobody dropped out of eighth grade, who would hire the college graduates?

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Rohn, Jim

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all

Socrates

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Plutarch

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

Stockdale, James B.

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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.

R. D. Hitchcock

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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esar

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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Ruskin, John

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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion.

Spark, Muriel

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No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God... and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

Whitney, Orson F.

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There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

Russell Green

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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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Formal education is but an incident in the lifetime of an individual. Most of us who have given the subject any study have come to realize that education is a continuous process ending only when ambition comes to a halt.

Rees, R. I.

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A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.

Ann Radcliffe

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The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

Rosenberg, Harold

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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Plato

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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men.

Socrates

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is proverb expressing this. It says,trouble is a tunnel thorough which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

Weeks, Claire

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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

B. F. Skinner

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I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.

Ellen DeGeneres

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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

William James

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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.

Wilde, Oscar

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Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.

Robert Hutchins

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To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

Mary Pettibone Poole

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The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education.

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Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.

Savage, Robert C.

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Education has opened many, many doors. However, there are still innumerable doors shut tight -- unopened yet. These are the doors of the future. Perhaps one of my children will open one of these doors -- I shall help give him the key.

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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done -- men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

Piaget, Jean

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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.

Schelling, Felix E.

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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get'em laminated.

Jeph Jacques

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.

Porter, Sylvia

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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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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Alec Bourne

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The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

Denis Diderot

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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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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Pete Seeger