| Quote 77 | Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. |
| Quote 200 | Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. |
| Quote 269 | He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
- Victor Hugo |
| Quote 317 | Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. |
| Quote 318 | Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. |
| Quote 370 | Education is the transmission of civilization. |
| Quote 406 | An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what... |
| Quote 413 | Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. |
| Quote 763 | Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. |
| Quote 1074 | Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. |
| Quote 1416 | An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading... |
| Quote 1514 | Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. |
| Quote 2038 | It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. |
| Quote 2740 | The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. |
| Quote 2961 | Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. |
| Quote 3118 | Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. |
| Quote 4111 | Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. |
| Quote 4247 | Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. |
| Quote 4753 | Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. |
| Quote 4822 | Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. |
| Quote 4855 | Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. |
| Quote 7592 | In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. |
| Quote 7726 | 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. |
| Quote 7963 | I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool. |
| Quote 7974 | When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. |
| Quote 8022 | Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. |
| Quote 8113 | Responsibility educates.
- Wendell Phillips |
| Quote 8298 | Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy. |
| Quote 8336 | Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. |
| Quote 8412 | No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true educatio... |
| Quote 8574 | The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. |
| Quote 8600 | An educated people can be easily governed.
- Alan K. Simpson |
| Quote 8766 | To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. |
| Quote 8795 | The willingness to learn new skills is very high. |
| Quote 8836 | Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? |
| Quote 8977 | To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is n... |
| Quote 9076 | I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. |
| Quote 9111 | Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. |
| Quote 9126 | I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. |
| Quote 9275 | 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 wo... |
| Quote 9287 | If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. |
| Quote 9288 | I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. |
| Quote 9371 | Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. |
| Quote 9374 | The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. |
| Quote 9593 | I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world. |
| Quote 9614 | Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to le... |
| Quote 10043 | If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. |
| Quote 10210 | It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual. |
| Quote 10412 | Learn to think continentally.
- Alexander Hamilton |
| Quote 10422 | America is the best half-educated country in the world. |
| Quote 10485 | 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. |
| Quote 10788 | The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. |
| Quote 11022 | I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. |
| Quote 11034 | An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some styl... |
| Quote 11039 | To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated. |
| Quote 11074 | Education is all a matter of building bridges. |
| Quote 11192 | The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. |
| Quote 11274 | The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. |
| Quote 11358 | Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to gr... |
| Quote 11399 | In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated. |
| Quote 11726 | So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it. |
| Quote 11729 | I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they wou... |
| Quote 11892 | You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God. |
| Quote 11994 | The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. |
| Quote 12308 | It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. |
| Quote 12508 | The only real failure in life is one not learned from. |
| Quote 12942 | To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us. |
| Quote 13214 | Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. |
| Quote 13241 | Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. |
| Quote 13371 | Every educated person is a future enemy.
- Martin Bormann |
| Quote 13803 | A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. |
| Quote 13912 | It is always in season for old men to learn.
- Aeschylus |
| Quote 13913 | No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is comple... |
| Quote 14036 | True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance. |
| Quote 14084 | Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. |