Quotes About Knowledge

Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.

The educated can listen impassively to almost anything.

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

People think of education as something they can finish.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing

In worthy teaching, all things are related.

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions.

College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Enlightenment is light.

Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.

The more you learn, the more you know there is still alot more to learn't

Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe.

An investment in your country's education pays the best interest.

The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.