Education Quotes

"Education is the most powerful tool, but only if used for good."

"Education is the foundation of freedom."

"Education liberates the mind."

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

"All knowledge that the world has ever gained has come from trial and error."

"The great art of learning is to undertake but one thing at a time."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

"When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, then you have education."

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."

"His education had been classical and the classical education meant absolutely nothing to him."

"The mind is capable of all things if trained with patience and care."

"Education teaches us facts, but wisdom teaches us how to live with uncertainty."

"If we encounter a person of rare intellect, we should ask them what books they read."

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

"The mind is often a better thing to exercise than the body."

"You can't learn less."

"The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things."

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."

"Education of the mind must be accompanied by cultivation of virtue."

"Education is the great liberator and the great enslaver."

"Education is the process of learning what you don't know you don't know."

"Learning is not a task, but a joy that lasts forever."

"The mind is not a place to be conquered, but a garden to be cultivated."

"The pursuit of knowledge is the highest form of freedom."

"The most worthwhile knowledge is that which teaches us how to live"

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet"

"The mind is a garden; tend it with care and wisdom."

"Education illuminates the path to freedom."

"Education is the only politics I know."

"When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, both parties are cheated."