A wise person has something to say, a fool has to say something.
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1. "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
2. "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
Will Durant
Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance
3. "Experience is the teacher of all things."
Julius Caesar
Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
4. "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
5. "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
6. "Wit is educated insolence."
Aristotle, "The Art of Rhetoric"
Other categories: Wit and Humor
7. "Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Aphorisms"
8. "Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them."
Samuel Butler, "Notebooks"
Other categories: Art and Culture
9. "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
10. "Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."
John Ruskin
Other categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Love
11. "Building a conscience is what discipline is all about."
James L. Hymes, Jr., "Childhood"
Other categories: Sin and Conscience
12. "An illiterate king is a crowned ass."
English proverb
Other categories: Authority, Government
13. "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
14. "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"
15. "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."
Minna Antrim, "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"
Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
16. "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
17. "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"
18. "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
19. "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul."
Joseph Addison
20. "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
21. "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
22. "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
23. "Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."
Clarence Thomas
Other categories: Manners and Ethics
24. "In youth we learn; in age we understand."
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Other categories: Youth and Age
25. "Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself."
Chinese proverb
26. "Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices."
Laurence J. Peter
27. "Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology."
Clive James
28. "It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."
Alec Bourne
Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance
29. "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
B. F. Skinner
Other categories: Memory
30. "The key to education is the experience of beauty."
Friedrich von Schiller
Other categories: Beauty and Ugliness
31. "A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."
Theodore Roosevelt
Other categories: Law and Crime
32. "A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
33. "We go to school to learn to communicate, but all the teachers say to us is "shut up!""
Leo Anthony Gallagher
34. "When you lose, don't lose the lesson."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes
35. "Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily."
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Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance
36. "A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning."
proverb
Other categories: Intellect, Judgement
37. "Freedom can occur only through education."
Friedrich von Schiller
Other categories: Freedom and Servitude
38. "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."
Edmund Burke
Other categories: Human
39. "I am a part of everything that I have read."
Theodore Roosevelt
Other categories: Art and Culture
40. "A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron."
Horace Mann
41. "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
William Butler Yeats
42. "Every adult needs a child to teach; it's the way adults learn."
Frank A. Clark
Other categories: Youth and Age
43. "Education costs money, but then so does ignorance."
Claus Moser
Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance
44. "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
Ray Bradbury
45. "No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart."
Eric Hoffer
46. "Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."
Dan Stanford
Other categories: Various
47. "The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together."
Eric Hoffer
48. "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
Aristotle
49. "The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
Malcolm Forbes
50. "To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed."
Samuel T. Coleridge, "The Collected Works"
Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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