Quotes About Wisdom

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

The experience taught me that the essence of a Cambridge education centers on two questions: What does it mean? How do you know?

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

Nature is stronger than education.

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.

Education is one of the most important tools that you can give somebody.

Education is the number one priority.

I definitely had a top-notch education.

A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.

Better untaught than ill-taught.

Don't freak out until you know the facts.

Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

Compassion is a college education. It's a doctorate.

What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on?

The educated can listen impassively to almost anything.