Quotes About Education

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures.

If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.

The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.

Knowledge isn't always good for you.

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

Knowledge always liberates.

It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not be victimized by those who exploit differences.

The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.

Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.

A little knowledge can go a long way.

On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.

Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power!

The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.

Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.

Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.