Quotes About Education

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

All knowledge is worth having

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

Only that which is directed toward definite goals, which in turn are founded on sound educational philosophy, can be ultimately meaningful. The principles must always precede the activities.

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.

Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.

As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.

The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic.

I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

The new religion without any secrets is philosophy. The old religion, said Aristotle, is necessary only for the uneducated; Confucius, Buddha, Voltaire and Lessing were of the same opinion.

The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his civic functions in community life.