Quotes About Wisdom

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education."

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.

In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education.

Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday.

The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.

The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

Your education begins where what is called your education is over. Your fate is but the common lot of all.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

The only way to be totally free is through education.

Education must open the eyes and enable them to recognise the One behind the many.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

An investment in education always pays the highest returns.

When will we ever learn, there's nowhere else we can turn.

To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.