Education Quotes

"The pursuit of absolute answers requires us to question the questions themselves."

"The infinite regress in any division of space shows us the limits of our understanding."

"The wise man is not giving the right answers, but asking the right questions."

"The worst form of ignorance is rejecting what you do not yet understand."

"The love of wisdom is the beginning of wisdom."

"The greatest teacher is experience itself."

"Ignorance is the beginning of knowledge."

"All knowledge begins with wonder."

"The most difficult thing is to know yourself."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"The virtues, then, being of two kinds, intellectual and moral, intellectual virtue in the main owes both its birth and its growth to instruction."

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

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

"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

"Educate the young and there will be no need to punish the old."

"In teaching others, we teach ourselves."

"What is learned with pleasure is never forgotten."

"In every person dwells a teacher and a student."

"Do not despise philosophy even when young, for you are never too inexperienced to be ignorant."

"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake is the highest form of pleasure."

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

"Reviewing what you have learned and learning something new makes a teacher."

"Learning without thought is a waste of intellectual energy; thought without learning is dangerous."

"If a man loves goodness without loving study, his ignorance will prove to be a danger to society."

"The man who will not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

"The path to wisdom begins with admitting your ignorance."

"All learning begins with a question; all answers begin with curiosity."

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

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life."