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1. "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
Benjamin Franklin
Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance
Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux Brougham, Speech to the House of Commons
Other categories: Human
3. "A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students."
John Ciardi
4. "He who can find new wisdom in old knowledge will be a good teacher."
Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
5. "Education: How come we have smart bombs and dumb kids?"
Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
6. "Education is the fountain that too few people drink from."
7. "Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."
Other categories: Freedom and Servitude
Fawn M. Brodie
Other categories: Work and Laziness
9. "Books, the children of the brain."
Jonathan Swift, "A Tale Of A Tub"
Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
10. "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
Jim Rohn
Other categories: Science and Technology
12. "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
Mahatma Gandhi
Other categories: God and Religion
14. "To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Other categories: Manners and Ethics
15. "Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport."
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance
Barbara Tuchman
Other categories: Art and Culture
17. "The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?"
Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"
18. "You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God."
Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
19. "Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Knowledge, Ignorance
20. "We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well."
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Other categories: Life and Death
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21. "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
Ronald E. Osborn
Other categories: Various
22. "Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best."
Spanish proverb
23. "Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People."
Virginia Satir
Other categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Youth and Age
24. "We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Aphorisms"
Other categories: Intellect, Judgement
Jacob Bronowski
Other categories: Question and Problem
John Ruskin
Other categories: Authority, Government
27. "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
28. "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
Will Durant
Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance
29. "Experience is the teacher of all things."
Julius Caesar
Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
Elaine May
Enid Bagnold, "Autobiography"
Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance
32. "Wit is educated insolence."
Aristotle, "The Art of Rhetoric"
Other categories: Wit and Humor
33. "Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Aphorisms"
34. "Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them."
Samuel Butler, "Notebooks"
Other categories: Art and Culture
G. M. Trevelyan, "English Social History"
Other categories: Intellect, Judgement
36. "Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."
John Ruskin
Other categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Love
37. "Building a conscience is what discipline is all about."
James L. Hymes, Jr., "Childhood"
Other categories: Sin and Conscience
38. "An illiterate king is a crowned ass."
English proverb
Other categories: Authority, Government
Jose Ortega y Gasset, "The Dehumanization of Art"
Other categories: Art and Culture -:- Human
Francis Bacon, "The Advancement of Learning"
41. "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."
Minna Antrim, "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"
Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
Aldous Huxley, "Aphorisms and Reflections"
Other categories: Manners and Ethics
Thomas Henry Huxley, "Collected Essays"
Henry Brooks Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams"
Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance
45. "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul."
Joseph Addison
Denis Waitly
Other categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Youth and Age
Anne Wilson Schaef
Other categories: Life and Death -:- Wisdom and Stupidity
Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See"
Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes
49. "Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."
Clarence Thomas
Other categories: Manners and Ethics
50. "In youth we learn; in age we understand."
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Other categories: Youth and Age