Education Quotes

"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."

"True learning is a yearning to know; true ignorance is a complacent acceptance of ignorance."

"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth."

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."

"Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their subjects, but which no democracy can tolerate among its citizens."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"The mind needs exercise as much as the body needs food."

"To teach is to plant seeds that bloom for generations to come."

"To purify the mind is to purify one's vision of reality."

"Knowledge of places makes knowledge of peoples inevitable."

"Education opens doors that cannot be closed."

"In seeking knowledge, we honor our nature."

"Do you know what the difference is between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."

"Education is the most powerful weapon."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire within the soul."

"When I get a little money I buy books; if any is left, I buy food and clothes."

"All men naturally love learning."

"Learning is the best provision for old age."

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."

"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will."

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

"Fortune and defeat are but two schoolmasters by which we learn."

"We should not so much value what we have been taught as to whom we have been taught."

"Every man wishes to be wise, but no man wishes to take the trouble of being so."

"The greatest thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more."

"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."

"Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as polemics."

"To teach is to touch the eternal in another soul."