Quotes About Wisdom

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

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing

In worthy teaching, all things are related.

No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion.

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.

I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.

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.

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.

All learning has an emotional base.

EFFECT OF A TRUE TEACHER GOES UP TO ETERNITY THROUGH HIS STUDENTS.

Enlightenment is light.

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.

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.

My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, but that's not what she was talking about. My mom knew that education opened doors and opened minds.

To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book.

The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.

Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.