Motivational Quotes

Education

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

Best Quotes about Education

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

Porter, Sylvia

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.

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

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

Pete Seeger

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

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

James A. Garfield

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

Savage, Robert C.

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

Diogenes Laertius

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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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School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.

Updike, John

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

Weil, Simone

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

Pound, Ezra

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

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

Plato

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

Ruskin, John

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

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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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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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Twain, Mark

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

Rudolph, Lee

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Plutarch

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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.

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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 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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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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Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody.

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The world is run by C students.

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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Alec Bourne

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Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

Clive James