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1. "Education: How come we have smart bombs and dumb kids?"

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Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

2. "Education is the fountain that too few people drink from."

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

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Other categories: Freedom and Servitude

4. "Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain."

Fawn M. Brodie

Other categories: Work and Laziness

5. "Books, the children of the brain."

Jonathan Swift, "A Tale Of A Tub"

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

6. "Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."

Gustave Flaubert, "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

Other categories: Life and Death

7. "Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins."

Jim Rohn

Other categories: Science and Technology

8. "Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than through grave teaching."

Baltasar Gracian, "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

Other categories: Wit and Humor

9. "Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves."

Mahatma Gandhi

Other categories: God and Religion

10. "To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

11. "Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

12. "Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."

Barbara Tuchman

Other categories: Art and Culture

13. "The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?"

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

14. "You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God."

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Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

15. "Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

16. "We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Other categories: Life and Death

17. "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."

Ronald E. Osborn

Other categories: Various

18. "Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best."

Spanish proverb

19. "Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People."

Virginia Satir

Other categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Youth and Age

20. "We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Aphorisms"

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

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21. "It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."

Jacob Bronowski

Other categories: Question and Problem

22. "The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education."

John Ruskin

Other categories: Authority, Government

23. "If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family."

Ruby Manikan

Other categories: Family and Loneliness

24. "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

Will Durant

Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

25. "Experience is the teacher of all things."

Julius Caesar

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

26. "The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired."

Elaine May

27. "When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much."

Enid Bagnold, "Autobiography"

Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

28. "Wit is educated insolence."

Aristotle, "The Art of Rhetoric"

Other categories: Wit and Humor

29. "Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Aphorisms"

30. "Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them."

Samuel Butler, "Notebooks"

Other categories: Art and Culture

31. "Education [...] has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals."

G. M. Trevelyan, "English Social History"

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

32. "Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."

John Ruskin

Other categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Love

33. "Building a conscience is what discipline is all about."

James L. Hymes, Jr., "Childhood"

Other categories: Sin and Conscience

34. "An illiterate king is a crowned ass."

English proverb

Other categories: Authority, Government

35. "The poet begins where the man ends. The man’s lot is to live his human life, the poet’s to invent what is nonexistent."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "The Dehumanization of Art"

Other categories: Art and Culture -:- Human

36. "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

Francis Bacon, "The Advancement of Learning"

37. "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."

Minna Antrim, "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

38. "Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!"

Aldous Huxley, "Aphorisms and Reflections"

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

39. "It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organisation upon the natural organisation of the body."

Thomas Henry Huxley, "Collected Essays"

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

Henry Brooks Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams"

Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

41. "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul."

Joseph Addison

42. "The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."

Denis Waitly

Other categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Youth and Age

43. "Life is so constructed that we move through different phases and stages, each requiring the skills and wisdom of the previous ones."

Anne Wilson Schaef

Other categories: Life and Death -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

44. "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See"

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes

45. "Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."

Clarence Thomas

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

46. "In youth we learn; in age we understand."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Other categories: Youth and Age

47. "Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself."

Chinese proverb

48. "Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices."

Laurence J. Peter

49. "Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology."

Clive James

50. "It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."

Alec Bourne

Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

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