Motivational Quotes

Education

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

Best Quotes about Education

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.

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

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Wu Ting-Fang

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

Clive James

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

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.

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

Plato

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

Rogers, Carl

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

Rudolph, Lee

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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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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Plato

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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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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Ruskin, John

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

Gail Godwin

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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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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Robert Frost

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The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done -- men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

Piaget, Jean

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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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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

Ruskin, John