946 private quotes tagged education

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” — Mark Twain

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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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“'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.” — Alexander Pope

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“Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.” — James Madison

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“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.” — Carl Sagan

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