Education Quotes

"The real problem is that the majority of people are not equipped to think rationally."

"It is possible that all wisdom, and all truth, has already been written; it is now necessary only to read."

"I must become a teacher or a poet or something in that line, after I have first succeeded in becoming a human being."

"Every man is born talented; the question is whether he can retain it."

"The present tendency is to educate people to be employees, not to be themselves."

"Language is the instrument of science and language fully understood is the key to half the wit of mankind."

"All knowledge begins with observation and reflection upon observation."

"The advancement of learning depends upon free inquiry."

"All the grand concerns of mankind rest upon the foundation of true learning."

"The greatest impediment to knowledge is the illusion of having already obtained it."

"The mind that is not fed with knowledge will starve in ignorance."

"The mind must be trained like the body, through discipline and practice."

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."

"The mind is furnished by degrees."

"The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any of the sciences."

"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him."

"The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others."

"The great secret of education is to direct the desire towards its true objects."

"Education is the most powerful weapon for change."

"The mind is capable of infinite growth."

"The greatest secret of education is learning how to direct vanity to useful purposes."

"Education should aim at developing human potential fully."

"Man must be educated to independence of thought."

"Man can be perfected through education and moral discipline."

"The mind's highest good is the knowledge of God, and the mind's highest virtue is to know God."

"With the aid of self-control and method, we may at last discover who we are."

"Teach thy tongue to say I do not know, and thou shalt progress."

"A person should study Torah even if not for its own sake, because through studying not for its own sake, one comes to study for its own sake."

"Nothing is more useful than for writers, even of moral or political subjects, to correct the mistakes that arise in theory by consulting the practice."

"Ignorance is the source of all misery."