946 private quotes tagged education

“Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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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“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.” — Will Rogers

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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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“Education is hanging around until you've caught on.” — Robert Frost

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“America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.” — Will Rogers

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“The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.” — Aldous Huxley

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“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” — Derek Bok

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“The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.” — Mark Twain

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“I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.” — Dalai Lama

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“To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Education is the cheap defense of nations.” — Edmund Burke

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“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Segregation has no place in the education system.” — Richard Dawkins

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“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” — Albert Einstein

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“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Nature has always had more force than education.” — Voltaire

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“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.” — Mark Twain

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“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela

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“I've never let my school interfere with my education.” — Mark Twain

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