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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948
- Life & Death
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle384–322 BC
- Ideas
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius551–479 BC
- Thinking
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Morality
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain1835–1910
It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.
Josh Billings1818–1885Often credited to Mark Twain
There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live.
JAJames Truslow Adams1878–1949Often credited to John Adams
- Morality
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost1874–1963
One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates470–399 BC
- Knowledge
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Dr. Seuss1904–1991On becoming a writer, NY Times (May 21, 1986)
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana1863–1952The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense, This famous statement has produced many paraphrases and variants:
- Time
Information is not knowledge.
?UnattributedOften credited to Albert Einstein
- Knowledge
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato429–349 BCThe Republic (375 BC), Republic, Book IV, 425BIn context
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Socrates470–399 BCII: xxxi. Original Greek: ἓν μόνον ἀγαθὸν εἶναι, τὴν ἐπιστήμην, καὶ ἓν μόνον κακόν, τὴν ἀμαθίαν
- Good & Evil
- Knowledge
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle384–322 BCThe Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers