946 private quotes tagged education

“In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.” — Malcolm X

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“I've never been a big believer in formal education.” — Megan Fox

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“Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I was there - went to Cambridge. I don't know whether it's the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford, because it seemed more of an easy bridge.” — Tom Hiddleston

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“Learn to think continentally.” — Alexander Hamilton

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“I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.” — William Morris

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“And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.” — Rainn Wilson

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“If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.” — Heinrich Heine

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“Education is not so important as people think.” — Elizabeth Bowen

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“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” — Kofi Annan

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“As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.” — Karl Rove

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“Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.” — Alice Miller

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“To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.” — Epictetus

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“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.” — Jane Austen

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“Education is the transmission of civilization.” — Will Durant

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“Change is the end result of all true learning.” — Leo Buscaglia

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“It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.” — Kathleen Turner

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“Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.” — Robert Kiyosaki

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“Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.” — Billie Joe Armstrong

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“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.” — Michelle Obama

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“To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.” — A. A. Milne

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“For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.” — Thomas Frank

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“Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.” — Sammy Davis, Jr.

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