Quotes About Education

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.

Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.

Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.

Everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowing.

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.

One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.

It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.

. . . [A]s a rule, the most learned persons do not produce the greatest results. We see that only too often.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.