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Quotes About Education

There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college professor!
~ Bennett Cerf
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
~ Will Rogers
A lack of knowledge creates fear. Seeking knowledge creates courage.
~ Candice Swanepoel
Hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something important, the way to get power is by sharing it.
~ Joseph Badaracco
Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.
~ Robert Recorde
A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
~ Plato
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
~ John Donne
The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
~ Plato
Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.
~ John Wilbanks
The humanities don't belong to some elitist group... knowledge as a whole should be embraced.
~ Ruth Simmons
Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
~ Bel Kaufman
Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
~ George Santayana
Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed.
~ Neil Young
Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.
~ Frank Knight
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
~ Horace Mann
Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking.
~ Fritz Machlup
Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.
~ Michelle Rodriguez
Gain knowledge. It's valuable.
~ Daniel Norris
Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
If I don't have the books to read, if I don't have the information to study, how can I succeed? That's a lot of the stuff I would focus on if I was elected because I think knowledge is power.
~ Richard Sherman
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Knowledge that is paid for will be longer remembered.
~ Nachman of Breslov
There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.
~ George Eliot