Quotes About Education

Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.

Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing.

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom.

The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Knowledge comes from your instructors; wisdom comes from within.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Wisdom is knowing how little we know.

Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the 'educated' person.