Quotes About Education

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district - all studied and appreciated as they merit - are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.

A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.

An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

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

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." Benjamin Franklin

Wise Men learn by other's harms; Fools by their own.

You tell me, and I forget You teach me, and I remember You involve me, and I learn

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into disputation, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinburgh.

He who empties his purse into his mind, shall never go bankrupt.