Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Education

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

Plutarch

I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Plato

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

Rogers, Carl

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

L. L. Henderson

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

Jeph Jacques

The world is run by C students.

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

B. F. Skinner

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Rudolph, Lee

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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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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True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.

Schelling, Felix E.

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

Savage, Robert C.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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Whitney, Orson F.

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

Clive James

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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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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Pete Seeger

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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, 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 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

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

Robert Frost

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

Mary Pettibone Poole