946 private quotes tagged education

“Never let your schooling interfere with your education.” — Mark Twain

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“The highest result of education is tolerance.” — Helen Keller

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“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“The doer alone learneth.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.” — Plato

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“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.” — Napoleon Hill

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“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.” — Jim Rohn

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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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“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Don't let schooling interfere with your education.” — Mark Twain

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“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” — Mark Twain

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“The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.” — Bertrand Russell

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“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.” — Will Rogers

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“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” — Douglas Adams

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“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” — Joseph Stalin

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“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.” — Maya Angelou

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