946 private quotes tagged education

“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.” — Robert E. Lee

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“Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.” — Robert Anthony

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“I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.” — Joichi Ito

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“If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.” — Maynard James Keenan

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“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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“He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.” — David Hume

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“When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.” — Desiderius Erasmus

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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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“To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.” — Alan Greenspan

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

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

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

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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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