Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Education

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

Ruskin, John

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

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

Zedong, Mao

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

Robert Hutchins

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

Savage, Robert C.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Pete Seeger

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 has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Plutarch

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

B. F. Skinner

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

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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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 a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

James A. Garfield

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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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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

Plato

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

Young, Brigham

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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Alec Bourne

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

Porter, Sylvia

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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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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 world is run by C students.