946 private quotes tagged education

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” — Abigail Adams

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“I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.” — Annie Dillard

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“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” — Sydney J. Harris

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“The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.” — Ernest Renan

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“An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.” — Alan K. Simpson

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“Your library is your paradise.” — Desiderius Erasmus

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“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” — B. F. Skinner

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“Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.” — Charles Barkley

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“Responsibility educates.” — Wendell Phillips

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“I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.” — Al McGuire

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“Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.” — G. M. Trevelyan

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“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.” — Abigail Van Buren

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“The only real failure in life is one not learned from.” — Anthony J. D'Angelo

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“I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.” — Tallulah Bankhead

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“An educated people can be easily governed.” — Frederick The Great

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“If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.” — Abu Bakr

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“It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.” — Allen Klein

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“I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.” — Al Green

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“Every educated person is a future enemy.” — Martin Bormann

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“Man is what he reads.” — Joseph Brodsky

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“If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.” — Cornelius Vanderbilt

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“It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.” — Joseph Brodsky

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“Our universities and museums are respected around the country.” — Jane Byrne

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“To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.” — Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

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“I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.” — Leon Spinks

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