Motivational Quotes

Education

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

- Schlegel, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Education

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

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.

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.

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

Ruskin, John

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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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The world is run by C students.

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

Pete Seeger

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

B. F. Skinner

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

Rohn, Jim

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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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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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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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

Robert Frost

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

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

Socrates

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Ruskin, John