Education Quotes

"Reading, conversation and reflection constitute the most valuable education."

"We ought to think with the learned, but speak with the vulgar."

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

"In a word, I am convinced that all that is called learning is but a species of idleness."

"The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of learning."

"The love of learning is the most necessary passion of the mind."

"The educated man sees connections where the ignorant sees only facts."

"The purpose of learning is not to accumulate facts, but to develop wisdom."

"The best education is that which teaches how to think, not what to think."

"The mind grows by exercise in the company of great minds."

"All learning must begin with wonder."

"In order to improve the mind, we ought to less frequently contemplate those truths the discovery of which is difficult, than those which are readily discovered."

"Reading all good books is like conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."

"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

"The more one knows, the more one appreciates what one does not know."

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

"The pursuit of knowledge should be tempered with the pursuit of virtue."

"The best education teaches one how to think, not what to think."

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

"We are born ignorant, not stupid; we are made stupid by education."

"The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects."

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

"The true end of education is not to make the young learned but virtuous."

"Little and often is the way to great learning."

"The proper object of education is to make rational creatures virtuous and happy."

"The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr."

"The pursuit of knowledge is a form of worship."

"A day without learning is a day wasted."

"Knowledge without action is like a tree without fruit."

"To teach is to learn twice."