946 private quotes tagged education

“I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

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“Education is the best provision for old age.” — Aristotle

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

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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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“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.” — Winston Churchill

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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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“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.” — Victor Hugo

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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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“Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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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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“I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.” — George Orwell

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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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“Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.” — Janet Napolitano

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“Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“There is no education like adversity.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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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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“Education is the movement from darkness to light.” — Allan Bloom

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“Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?” — Erich Fromm

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