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Quotes About Growth

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.
~ Simone Weil
Education is one of the most important tools that you can give somebody.
~ Tyler Hilton
Education is the number one priority.
~ Vincent Kartheiser
Reading becomes the fuel for development.
~ Narendra Modi
Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own. . .
~ Noam Chomsky
Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.
~ Andre Gide
Very likely education does not make very much difference.
~ Gertrude Stein
My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.
~ Abraham Lincoln
You think education is something to be done when all else fails?
~ T. H. White
The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.
~ Richard Mitchell
Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.
~ Eliza Dushku
Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats.
~ Anant Agarwal
The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?
~ Henry David Thoreau
People think of education as something they can finish.
~ Isaac Asimov
Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
~ Michelle Obama
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.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thus education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
~ Alexander Pope
The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
~ T. S. Eliot
To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.
~ Maria Montessori
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson