Motivational Quotes

Education

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Education

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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.

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

Savage, Robert C.

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

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

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

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

Gail Godwin

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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

Plato

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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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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 world is run by C students.

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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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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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 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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The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Ruskin, John

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rogers, Carl

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The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Weil, Simone

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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 the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

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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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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 H. Huxley

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

Plutarch

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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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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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

L. L. Henderson

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

Claiborne Pell

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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.