946 private quotes tagged education

“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.” — Alexander Pope

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“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.” — Plato

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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle

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“His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.” — Woody Allen

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“An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.” — Anatole France

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“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” — Aristotle

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“We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.” — H. G. Wells

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“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“The key to education is the experience of beauty.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.” — Robert Frost

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“It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.” — John F. Kennedy

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“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.” — Anatole France

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“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.” — Plato

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“Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.” — Edsger Dijkstra

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“History is a race between education and catastrophe.” — H. G. Wells

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“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.” — John F. Kennedy

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“In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“The giving of love is an education in itself.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” — Albert Einstein

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“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.” — Thomas Moore

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“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.” — Anatole France

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“Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.” — Lee Iacocca

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“Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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