Quotes · Skopia

45 quotes

1942

★ 0.9

Interview

To trust your intuition is exactly the opposite of any sort of formal education.

Chris Burden

1993

★ 0.9

Poem

By education most have been misled.

John Dryden

The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts · 1687

★ 1.1

Autobiography and memoir

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams · 1907

★ 1.1

Autobiography and memoir

I was told that desire for learning in women was against the will of God.

Mary Butts

1937

★ 1.1

Speech · Commencement address

Education is... A two-edged sword that can be used either for the progress of mankind or for its destruction.

Haile Selassie I

1963

★ 1.1

Interview

One thing that I really like about teaching is that you have to work very hard not to lose the respect of your students.

Tania Bruguera

2013

★ 1.1

Novel · Magazine

The mind of the thoroughly well informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890

★ 1.2

Speech

We believe that out of the public school grows the greatness of a nation.

Mark Twain

1900

★ 1.3

Essay

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Helen Keller

1903

★ 1.3

Philosophical literature

To pursue it is to be human, to give it up is to be a beast.

Xunxi

250 BC

★ 1.3

Essay

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Plutarch

Moralia · 100

★ 1.3

Novel

A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · 1851

★ 1.3

Essay · Philosophical literature · Political literature

A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another.

John Stuart Mill

On Liberty · 1859

★ 1.3

Historical literature

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H.G. Wells

1920

★ 1.9

Film · Coming of age (film) · Crime (film) · Coming of age · Crime

I was getting two educations: One from the street and one from school. That way I’d be twice as smart as everybody.

Calogero Anello

A Bronx Tale · 1993

★ 1.9

Interview · Magazine

You don't need a certificate. Just do it or not do it.

Lawrence Weiner

Interview Magazine · 2015

★ 1.9

Scripture · Religious literature

Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; guard it well, for it is your life.

Proverbs 4:13

686 BC

★ 1.9

Poem

What Sculpture is to a Block of Marble, Education is to a Human Soul.

Joseph Addison

1711

★ 1.9

Essay

Education makes us what we are.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

1758

★ 1.9

Essay · Economic literature

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

John Maynard Keynes

1926

★ 1.9

Magazine

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

B.F. Skinner

1964

★ 1.9

Letter

The advancement & diffusion of Knowledge, which is the only Guardian of true liberty.

James Madison

1825

★ 2.0

Letter

And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

Horace

14 BC

★ 2.1

Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literature

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

★ 2.1

Scripture · Religious literature

Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Ecclesiastes 12:12

931 BC

★ 2.2

Autobiography and memoir

My alma mater was books.

Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X · 1965

★ 2.4

Essay

Why then should women be denied the benefit of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God Almighty would never have given them capacities.

Daniel Defoe

1697

★ 3.5

Essay · Newspaper

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Edward Everett

1837

★ 3.6

Poem

Better build schoolrooms for "the boy", Than cells and gibbets for "the man".

Eliza Cook

1853

★ 3.6

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

You put a textbook in front of these kids, put a problem on the blackboard, teach them every problem in some statewide test, it won't matter. None of it. 'Cause they're not learning for our world; they're learning for theirs.

Howard "Bunny" Colvin

The Wire · 2006

★ 3.6

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Democritus

415 BC

★ 3.7

Personal journal

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Henry David Thoreau

1850

★ 3.7

Poem · Satire

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

Juvenal

Satires · 100

★ 3.8

Novel · Coming of age story

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 3.8

Short story

Everything has its limit—iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Mark Twain

1906

★ 3.8

Biography · Philosophical literature

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

Aristotle

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

★ 4.0

Biography · Historical literature

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, and a refuge in adversity.

Aristotle

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

★ 4.0

Poem

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Criticism · 1711

★ 5.2

Almanac

Genius without Education is like Silver in the Mine.

Benjamin Franklin

1750

★ 5.5

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