50 Education Quotes and the Value of Always Learning More
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde
“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela
“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost
“The past has no power over the present moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead
“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine
“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain
“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
― Frank Zappa
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle
“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
― Khaled Hosseini
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
― C.S. Lewis
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch
“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
― Nelson Mandela
“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather make man a more clever devil.”
― C.S. Lewis
“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”
― Michel Legrand
“I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.”
― Bill Watterson
“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”
― Mark Twain
“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding because to understand is to be free.”
― Baruch Spinoza
“Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
― Noam Chomsky
“Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning.”
― Anton Chekhov
“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti
“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
― Mark Twain
“A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“Ignorance is the parent of fear.”
― Herman Melville
“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught”
― Oscar Wilde
“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”
― James Madison
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
― H.G. Wells
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
― Abigail Adams
“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
― Jacques Barzun
“A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”
― Jane Austen
“People think of education as something they can finish.”
― Isaac Asimov
“The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.”
― Harry S. Truman
“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”
― Aristotle
“Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. ”
― Ayn Rand
“PhD made me poorer, without money, but richer in thoughts.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
“Education helps you to find beauty, but you are responsible to see it.”
― Debasish Mridha
“The worth of a book is infinite.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
“The more I learn, the more doors of information and opportunity are open to me.”
― Debasish Mridha
“Should books not have been there, hearsay would have been the best reading material!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“The burden of information often makes us blind; wisdom opens our eyes.”
― Debasish Mridha
“The biggest risk in life is not the failure, but the failure to get an education.”
― Debasish Mridha