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Aristotle2 quotes
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — AristotleLearning is an ornament in prosperity, and a refuge in adversity. — AristotleMark Twain2 quotes
Everything has its limit—iron ore cannot be educated into gold. — Mark Twain · 1906We believe that out of the public school grows the greatness of a nation. — Mark Twain · 1900Plutarch2 quotes
The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting. — PlutarchThe very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. — Plutarch · 100Socrates2 quotes
Behold! human beings living in an underground den... Like ourselves... They see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave. — Socrates · 375 BCThe object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful. — Socrates · 375 BCAlexander Pope1 quote
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 · 1711B.F. Skinner1 quote
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. — B.F. Skinner · 1964Benjamin Franklin1 quote
Genius without Education is like Silver in the Mine. — Benjamin Franklin · 1750Calogero Anello1 quote
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 · 1993Charlotte Bronte1 quote
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 · 1847Chris Burden1 quote
To trust your intuition is exactly the opposite of any sort of formal education. — Chris Burden · 1993Claude Adrien Helvetius1 quote
Education makes us what we are. — Claude Adrien Helvetius · 1758Daniel Defoe1 quote
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 · 1697Democritus1 quote
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate. — Democritus · 415 BCEdward Everett1 quote
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. — Edward Everett · 1837Eliza Cook1 quote
Better build schoolrooms for "the boy",
Than cells and gibbets for "the man". — Eliza Cook · 1853G.M. Trevelyan1 quote
[Education] has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. — G.M. Trevelyan · 1942H.G. Wells1 quote
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. — H.G. Wells · 1920Haile Selassie I1 quote
Education is... A two-edged sword that can be used either for the progress of mankind or for its destruction. — Haile Selassie I · 1963Helen Keller1 quote
The highest result of education is tolerance. — Helen Keller · 1903Henry Adams1 quote
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. — Henry Adams · 1907Henry David Thoreau1 quote
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. — Henry David Thoreau · 1850Heraclitus1 quote
Much learning does not teach understanding. — HeraclitusHerman Melville1 quote
A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. — Herman Melville · 1851Horace1 quote
And seek for truth in the groves of Academe. — Horace · 14 BCHoward "Bunny" Colvin1 quote
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 · 2006James Madison1 quote
The advancement & diffusion of Knowledge, which is the only Guardian of true liberty. — James Madison · 1825John Dryden1 quote
By education most have been misled. — John Dryden · 1687John Maynard Keynes1 quote
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. — John Maynard Keynes · 1926John Stuart Mill1 quote
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Joseph Addison1 quote
What Sculpture is to a Block of Marble, Education is to a Human Soul. — Joseph Addison · 1711