Motivational Quotes

Education

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

Best Quotes about Education

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

Rohn, Jim

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.

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

The world is run by C students.

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

Rogers, Carl

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Clive James

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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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Ann Radcliffe

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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 foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Diogenes Laertius

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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 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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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

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

Pete Seeger

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

Plutarch

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

Jeph Jacques

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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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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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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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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Ruskin, John

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

Alec Bourne

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

Rudolph, Lee

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