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1. "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
Benjamin Franklin
Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance
Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux Brougham, Speech to the House of Commons
Quotations about: 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."
Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity
5. "Education: How come we have smart bombs and dumb kids?"
Quotations about: 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."
Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude
Fawn M. Brodie
Quotations about: Work and Laziness
9. "Books, the children of the brain."
Jonathan Swift, "A Tale Of A Tub"
Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity
10. "Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."
Gustave Flaubert, "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"
Quotations about: Life and Death
Jim Rohn
Quotations about: Science and Technology
12. "Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than through grave teaching."
Baltasar Gracian, "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Quotations about: Wit and Humor
Mahatma Gandhi
Quotations about: God and Religion
14. "To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Quotations about: Manners and Ethics
15. "Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport."
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance
Barbara Tuchman
Quotations about: 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."
Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity
19. "Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Knowledge, Ignorance
20. "We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well."
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Quotations about: 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
Quotations about: 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
Quotations about: 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"
Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement
Jacob Bronowski
Quotations about: Question and Problem
John Ruskin
Quotations about: Authority, Government
27. "If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family."
Ruby Manikan
Quotations about: Family and Loneliness
28. "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
Will Durant
Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance
29. "Experience is the teacher of all things."
Julius Caesar
Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity
Elaine May
Enid Bagnold, "Autobiography"
Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance
32. "Wit is educated insolence."
Aristotle, "The Art of Rhetoric"
Quotations about: 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"
Quotations about: Art and Culture
G. M. Trevelyan, "English Social History"
Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement
36. "Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."
John Ruskin
Quotations about: Family and Loneliness -:- Love
37. "Building a conscience is what discipline is all about."
James L. Hymes, Jr., "Childhood"
Quotations about: Sin and Conscience
38. "An illiterate king is a crowned ass."
English proverb
Quotations about: Authority, Government
Jose Ortega y Gasset, "The Dehumanization of Art"
Quotations about: 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"
Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity
Aldous Huxley, "Aphorisms and Reflections"
Quotations about: Manners and Ethics
Thomas Henry Huxley, "Collected Essays"
Henry Brooks Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams"
Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance
45. "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul."
Joseph Addison
Denis Waitly
Quotations about: Family and Loneliness -:- Youth and Age
Anne Wilson Schaef
Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Wisdom and Stupidity
Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See"
Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes
49. "Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."
Clarence Thomas
Quotations about: Manners and Ethics
50. "In youth we learn; in age we understand."
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Quotations about: Youth and Age