Quotes About Wisdom

Education beats the beauty and the youth.

I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.

Education is the science of relations

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

If you think the cost of education is high, think about ignorance.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

I don't care how somebody gets their education, as long as they have one.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

Education doesn't make you smarter.

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

By education most have been misled.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.