Education and Learning Quotes

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."

"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul."

"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."

"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants."

"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."

"Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life."

"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."

"Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon."

"A child miseducated is a child lost."

"Your library is your paradise."

"If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse."

"All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one."

"I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories."

"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."

"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."

"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."

"I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."

"I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students."

"Governments never learn. Only people learn."

"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life."

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."

"The willingness to learn new skills is very high."

"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."

"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."

"Read in order to live."

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."

"Education is neither eastern nor western."

"If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world."

"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."

"Without tact you can learn nothing."

"I need to complete my homework on time."

"Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."

"Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators."

"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."

"The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living."

"We cannot learn men from books."

"I cannot live without books."

"I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace."

"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."