Education Quotes

(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect.

Thomas Carlyle

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Doris Lessing

One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life...Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas, everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy?

Aldous Huxley

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

Joseph Addison

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Sir Walter Scott

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource.http://www.jfklink.com/speeches/jfk/publicpapers/1961/jfk46_61.html

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Special

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

Ed Koch

By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.

C.S. Lewis

My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.

Jennifer Garner

He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.

William Ellery Channing

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

Abraham Lincoln

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

Ann Plato

I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day.

Amanda Burton

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

Anthony J. D'Angelo

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

Spike Lee

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

Thomas Sowell

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

Joseph Lancaster

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

Ezra Pound

I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.

Skeet Ulrich