Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about Education

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

Ruskin, John

I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

Young, Brigham

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

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 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

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

Pete Seeger

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

B. F. Skinner

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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

Rudolph, Lee

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

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A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

Stockdale, James B.

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

Jeph Jacques

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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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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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

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

Rogers, Carl

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

Savage, Robert C.

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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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Ruskin, John

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

Rohn, Jim

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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 world is run by C students.

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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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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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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.

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

Weil, Simone

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

Diogenes Laertius

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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