Education Quotes

"To teach is to learn twice over."

"Of all the frictional resistance, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance."

"I have learned to gather all evidence first and afterwards draw conclusions."

"The present trend in the direction of specialization must inevitably lead to a form of scientific anarchy."

"Education is the most powerful tool we have to change the world."

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet the scientific literacy is sinking."

"Every person should understand at least the rudiments of science."

"We must teach our children to think critically and to question authority."

"You don't have to know everything to understand something."

"If you want to master something, teach it."

"Study hard what interests you most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible."

"Every time you explain something to someone else, you learn something yourself."

"The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort over what the world considers a useless subject."

"The greatest gift is the ability to think for oneself."

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."

"I was a young man with uninformed ideas."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

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

"The best education is what life teaches you."

"The greatest experiments teach us not what we sought, but what we needed to know."

"Without education, civilization slides backward into darkness."

"Education is the great equalizer that lifts all people toward their potential."

"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."

"If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics."

"The greatest gift is not just knowledge, but the desire for knowledge."

"I should be happy in your studies, and not ambitious."

"The libraries are filled with books of the past, but each person is responsible for their own education."

"Do not keep on with a mind that says 'I already know'."