Quotes About Education

Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.

For knowledge, too, is itself power.

The Holocaust is the most documented tragedy in recorded history. And therefore, later on, if there will be a later on, anyone wishing to know will know where to go for knowledge.

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.

If we learn more than the doctor in areas of value to our health, it is our duty to apply this knowledge to the betterment of ourselves and our families.

Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

Knowledge—like a nail—is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is put upon it.

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

Knowledge, whatever the form, could be as effective as a weapon.

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach; the function of the second is -- to move.

Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.

If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.

Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.

When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you.