946 private quotes tagged education

“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 goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” — 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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“The giving of love is an education in itself.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

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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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“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.” — George Washington

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

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

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“It is always in season for old men to learn.” — Aeschylus

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

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

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

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