Quotes About Wisdom

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

Wise and purposeful letting alone is the best part of education.

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Education isn't everything, for a start it isn't an elephant

Education is the best provision for old age.

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment a child is born-some say before-until it dies.

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

Education must precede motivation.

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

Education made us what we are.

The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

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.

I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man.

It is hard to learn when we think we know something.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.