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Quotes About Knowledge

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
~ David Bailey
The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.
~ Terry Eagleton
Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!
~ Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs
The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.
~ Nadeem Aslam, The Wasted Vigil
Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.
~ Oliver DeMille
College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.
~ John Cage, M: Writings '67-'72
I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.
~ Unknown
Without Greek studies there is no education.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Get an education because no one can take that away from you.
~ Nomar Garciaparra
Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.
~ Franz Grillparzer
I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.
~ Robert Frost
Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.
~ Thomas Sowell
I have an education, I went to college, you know?
~ Nicole Polizzi
When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me.
~ Bill Moyers
To me, education is the way out of poverty. And it is the only way.
~ Sherry Lansing
All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.
~ Charlie Trotter
The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
~ Agnes Repplier
It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?
~ Brandon Sanderson
School is one thing. Education is another. The two don't always overlap. Whether you're in school or not, it's always your job to get yourself an education.
~ Austin Kleon
Education is an admirable thing.
~ Oscar Wilde