Quotes About Education

The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths.

We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.

Experience alone does not create knowledge.

How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?

Ignorance is never better than knowledge

Knowledge is limited.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.

Knowledge is of more value than gold

When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.

In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge

The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into.

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.

Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.

The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the deaf.

Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" )

The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.