Famous Education Quotes in English with Images

Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.

- Wu Ting-Fang

Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

- Bill Gates

Education is like a double-edged sword.  It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.

- Wu Ting-Fang Quotes

You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn.  You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

- Education Quotes by Adam Cooper and Bill Collage

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which eigher freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

- James A. Garfield Quotes

That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world.  I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.

- J. Jacques Quotes

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 you do know and what you don't.

- Education Quotes by Anatole France

The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

- Quote by Denis Diderot

The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself , and you are an educated man;  and without this all other education is good for nothing.

-  R. D. Hitchcock Quotes

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that  ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

- Education Quote by Aristotle Download or Share

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

- Education Quote by B. F. Skinner Download or Share

Education is the best provision for old age.

- Education Quotes by Aristotle Download or Share

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

- Education Quotes by Alec Bourne Download or Share

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

- Education Quotes by Diogenes Laertius Download or Share

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

- R. Thomas Fuller Quotes

Only the educated are free.

- Epictetus Quotes

Goop teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

- Gail Godwin Quotes

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

- H. G. Wells Quotes

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

- Helen Keller Quotes

Education has for its object the formation of character.

- Herbert Spencer Quotes

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

- Herbert Spencer Quotes

The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.

- Socrates

Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.

- J. Jacques Quotes

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.

- Pete Seeger

To repeat what others have said requires education. To challenge it requires brains.

- Marry Pettibone Poole

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

- John Ciardi Quotes

She knows that is the best purpose of education: not be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Training is everything.  The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

To repeat what others have said, required education; to challenge it, requires brains.

- Mary Pettibone Poole Quotes

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

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Education is when you read the fine print.  Experience is what you get if you don't.

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

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie n good education.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.

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

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the  wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

- Russell Green Quotes

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

- Will Durant Quotes

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

- Wilson Mizner Quotes

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

- Albert Einstein

To repeat what others have said requires education. To challenge it requires brains.

- Marry Pettibone Poole

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

- Alec Bourne

Education… Has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University Education.