1. Quotes About Education
Quotes tagged as "education" (showing 1-30 of 1,056)
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain
tags: education
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“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde
tags: education, fashion
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“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young
tags: education, feminism, men, women
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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela

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“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite
tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries
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“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost
tags: education
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“When you know better you do better.”
― Maya Angelou
tags: education, intelligence, knowledge, wisdom
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“The past has no power over the present moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle
tags: education, inspirational, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom
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3. “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain
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“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
― C.S. Lewis
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“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of
settling well, without further expense to anybody. ”
― Jane Austen
tags: education, women
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tags: curiosity, depression, education, learning, teaching
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“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
― Frank Zappa
tags: education, sex
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“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― Saint Augustine of Hippo
tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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“Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand."
"Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
tags: education, humor
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“In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. ”
― Fran Lebowitz
tags: algebra, education, humor, mathematics
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“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
― C.S. Lewis
tags: character-development, education, ethics
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5. “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
― Robert Frost
tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning, mentoring
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“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
tags: childhood, education, learning, teaching
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“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened
or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
tags: education, prejudice
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“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
tags: education, schooling, university
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“Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are,
but don’t know how to be.”
― Heath L. Buckmaster, Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale
tags: education, growth, life, self-acceptance, self-realization
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6. “You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's
in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!”
― Bill Watterson
tags: calvin-and-hobbes, comic, education, funny, school
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“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination
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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch
tags: curiosity, education, mentoring, mind, thinking
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“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
― Aristotle
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“Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.”
― Charles M. Schulz