Motivational Quotes

Education

I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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Best Quotes about Education

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esar

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

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.

Robert Hutchins

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ruskin, John

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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

Plutarch

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

Jeph Jacques

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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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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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Pound, Ezra

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

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

Porter, Sylvia

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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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The world is run by C students.

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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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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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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

Pete Seeger

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Weil, Simone

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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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To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Plato

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

Rogers, Carl

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

Socrates

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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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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

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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