Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Education

Education, we see, is not merely gaining knowledge or skills helpful toward productive work, though certainly that is a part of it. Rather it is a replenishment and an expansion of the natural thirst of the mind and soul. Learning is a gradual process of growth, each step building upon the other. It is a process whereby the learner organizes and integrates not only facts but attitudes and values. The Lord has told us that we must open our minds and our hearts to learn. There is a Chinese proverb: Wisdom is as the moon rises, perceptible not in progress but in result. As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked.

Winder, Barbara W.

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

Young, Brigham

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

James A. Garfield

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

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

Alec Bourne

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You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

Adam Cooper and Bill Collage

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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

Gail Godwin

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Pound, Ezra

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A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.

Reverend Edward A. Malloy

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She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

John Mason Brown

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Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.

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Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

L. L. Henderson

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Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.

Wu Ting-Fang

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

Porter, Sylvia

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Plato

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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

Sullivan, Anne

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

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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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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 is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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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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That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of'em on the wall in my room.

Jeph Jacques

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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be satiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

Zedong, Mao

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Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

Richards, Beah

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

Socrates

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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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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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No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.

Rudolph, Lee

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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Phillips, Wendell

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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Twain, Mark

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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