Education and Learning Quotes

"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."

"Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society."

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

"Education is the cheap defense of nations."

"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics."

"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."

"Education is hanging around until you've caught on."

"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year."

"Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all."

"I am a part of everything that I have read."

"When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course."

"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."

"Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them."

"He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are."

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

"The giving of love is an education in itself."

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."

"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

"The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don't know."

"History is a race between education and catastrophe."

"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

"There is no greater education than one that is self-driven."

"Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality."

"Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."

"Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact."

"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."

"'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."

"Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing."

"Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either."

"You can't build a revolution with no education. Jomo Kenyatta did this in Africa, and because the people were not educated, he became as much an oppressor as the people he overthrew."

"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

"Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies."

"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him."

"You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment."

"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."

"I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool."

"To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education."

"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."

"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones."

"The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt."

"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."

"What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God."

"Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society."

"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody."

"The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any other reform if you don't have a strong economy."

"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education."

"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library."

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