Quotes About Knowledge

The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education."

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.

Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to school.

Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.

The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

I want to make sure that all kids get a good education and enjoy what they learn

The only way to be totally free is through education.

Education should serve to enlarge the vision and broaden the outlook of the people.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

Without education, confidence does not come.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

An investment in education always pays the highest returns.

Education isn't a result. It's a process.