Education Quotes

"Education is the key that unlocks the potential within every human being."

"Education is the means by which the dangerous inclination of mankind can be counteracted."

"The true cure for the disease of ignorance is education."

"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people."

"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a tragedy."

"The mind that is best improved is the one that is most enlightened by learning."

"A nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never was and never will be."

"The diffusion of knowledge among the people is the true basis of public liberty."

"Wherever there is an active mind, there is an appetite for knowledge."

"Let me recommend to you the importance of the study of political science."

"To persons in every station of life, I would recommend the cultivation of knowledge."

"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write."

"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."

"The education of youth is the foundation of good government."

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

"Much reading is an oppression of the mind."

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."

"The life so short, the craft so long to learn."

"Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be a true system."

"Reading and writing were the means by which I accomplished my own emancipation."

"Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime."

"Ignorant and cool, is the slowest thing known to move toward intelligence."

"The best security for any government is a well-educated people."

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people."

"I have often expressed my sentiments that every citizen should be versed in the Constitution."

"Education should not be limited to books alone; it must include the cultivation of moral virtue."

"A free society must have an educated citizenry to sustain itself."

"The pursuit of knowledge knows no boundaries of age or station."

"Education is the most powerful weapon against ignorance and tyranny."

"Education will prove the great equalizer of conditions of men."