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Quotes About Knowledge

Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.
~ Henry Ford
Few things are as essential as education.
~ Walter Annenberg
Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.
~ Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.
~ Alan Autry
I believe in education and wish I had a better one.
~ Loretta Lynn
Education provides the fullest opportunities for fulfilling ourselves. It is the access to all that a person has yet to learn.
~ Lowell Milken
Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.
~ Mao Zedong
A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?
~ Plato
They read all the books, but they can't find the answers.
~ John Mayer
Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.
~ Rutherford B. Hayes
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
~ Alexander Pope
Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.
~ Nelson Mandela
I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.
~ Michael J. Fox
[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.
~ Mildred H. McAfee
My mother and father stressed education and always made sure we had a place to study and books to read.
~ Unknown
Getting your education is an advantage you have.
~ Daddy Yankee
Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have possibilities opened to you.
~ Jonathan Taylor Thomas
The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.
~ Shawn Colvin
The value of a good education has never left me.
~ Michelle Pfeiffer
I think we hear a lot of talk about college, and we don't hear about early education.
~ Mitch Albom
Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
~ Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.
~ Linda Ronstadt