Quotes About Education

Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.

A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.

Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken

Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.

Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

Years teach us more than books.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others

Don't mistake knowledge for wisdom.