Quotes About Education

We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.

War does one good—it teaches people geography.

There are two ways to destroy a country: to involve it in a civil war or to keep all people ignorant by teaching them only religion.

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance.

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

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

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

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.

No one is wise by birth, for wisdom results from one own's efforts.