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Quotes About Education

The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.
~ John Wesley
The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around.
~ Matthew Ashimolowo
You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
~ Talib Kweli
I will make you love physics and your life will never be the same.
~ Walter Lewin
Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.
~ Jim Rohn
In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
~ William Allen White
What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?
~ Paulo Coelho
In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.
~ Francis Crick
One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something
~ Francis Ford Coppola
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.
~ Grayson L. Kirk
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.
~ Sai Baba
One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly
~ Tony Robbins
You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.
~ Warren Buffett
It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.
~ Elena Kagan
I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
~ Dean Kamen
God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
It is funny you know, you spend 12 years of your life learning about things and about life, but they never really tell you how hard life really is.
~ Amanda Peterson
I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.
~ Josh Radnor
Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children.
~ Harry S. Truman
Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
~ Warren Bennis
All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.
~ Tommy Lee Jones
To be successful in life what you need is education.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so small.
~ Jim Rohn