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Quotes About Knowledge

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
~ Theodore Parker
Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Education must precede motivation.
~ Jim Rohn
Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
~ Robert Henri
The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.
~ Charlotte Mason
Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.
~ Martha Gellhorn
An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.
~ John Constable
Education made us what we are.
~ Claude Adrien Helvetius
The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.
~ Joycelyn Elders
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
~ Stephen Vizinczey
My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
~ David Mamet
All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.
~ David Hawkins
The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.
~ Sherwood Anderson
An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.
~ Edith Wharton
Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.
~ Sarah Josepha Hale
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
~ Unknown
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
~ Pauline Phillips
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
~ Jacques Barzun
In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.
~ Georg Cantor
Education is what allows you to stand out
~ Ellen Ochoa
Education, like faith, is the evidence of things not seen.
~ Charlotte Mason
Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.
~ Frederick Douglass
Education is education, be it verbal or written.
~ Aamir Khan