Quotes About Education

Knowledge is never too dear.

It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.

Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.

A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look.

If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

The phrase 'popular science' has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.

Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

Knowledge is your weapon...Kill them with it.

If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.

The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge.

First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am Master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.

With knowledge grows doubt.

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."

Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.