Education Quotes

"Education without application is just entertainment."

- Tim Sanders

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

- Sydney J. Harris

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

- Robert Frost

"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

- Malcolm Forbes

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime."

- Maimonides

"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

- Socrates

"The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."

- Francis Bacon

"The more you learn, the more you earn."

- Warren Buffett

"I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost."

- Zig Ziglar

"The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it."

- Walt Disney

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

- Helen Keller

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

- Socrates

"People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong."

- Bill Vaughan

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited."

- Plutarch

"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire."

- W.B. Yeats

"Education and work are the levers to uplift a people."

- W. E. B. Du Bois

"Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you’re the one talking."

- Bob Cousy

"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."

- Maya Angelou

"You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read."

- Cesar Chavez

"Lux et Veritas."

- Yale University motto

"Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you."

- Barack Obama

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

- Margaret Fuller

"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift."

- Kate DiCamillo

"If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book."

- J.K. Rowling

"Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book."

- Susan Sontag

"Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from one generation to the next. Books save lives."

- Laurie Anderson