Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Russell Green

Best Quotes about Education

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

Socrates

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

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

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

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Zedong, Mao

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

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

Pete Seeger

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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 world is run by C students.

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

Rogers, Carl

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Robert Frost

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

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

Savage, Robert C.

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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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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

Plutarch

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

Weil, Simone

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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 state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Porter, Sylvia

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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 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 most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Plato

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

Rudolph, Lee

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Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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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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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Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Stalin, Joseph

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

Ruskin, John

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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