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1. "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

Benjamin Franklin

Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

2. "Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave."

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."

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Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

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

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Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

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

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

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Other categories: Freedom and Servitude

8. "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

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

11. "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

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

13. "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

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

16. "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

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."

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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

25. "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

26. "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

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

30. "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

31. "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

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

35. "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

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

39. "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

40. "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"

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

Minna Antrim, "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

42. "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

43. "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"

44. "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

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

Joseph Addison

46. "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

47. "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

48. "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

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

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