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Quotes About Progress

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.
~ E. F. Schumacher
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
~ Booker T. Washington
No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
~ Nelson Mandela
Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.
~ George H. W. Bush
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
~ Will Durant
Education is the cornerstone of liberty.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I consider the proper education of our youths one of the most important objects now to be attained and one from which the greatest benefits may be expected.
~ Robert E. Lee
Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.
~ Indira Gandhi
If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.
~ Jim Rohn
The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.
~ John Dewey
True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
~ Barack Obama
Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education.
~ Roy Wilkins
Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest.
~ Charles Evans Hughes
Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.
~ Michelle Obama
The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.
~ Warren Buffett
The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.
~ E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
By seeking and blundering we learn.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.
~ Alfred Rosenberg
I dreamt of a country where education would prevail.
~ Malala Yousafzai
America had an emphasis on the individual and so education became available for everyone.
~ John Glenn
Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.
~ Marjane Satrapi