Quotes about education
402 quotes from 240 people
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Society and Solitude (1870), Old Age
Euripides481–407 BCFrg. 205.3 (Bartlett’s, 1892); cf. Davenant
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873Zanoni (1842), Book IV, Chapter IV
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855), Article on Biography.
George Eliot1819–1880Daniel Deronda (1876)
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, ed. J. P. Richter, No. 498
Jerome345–420Commentary on Isaiah, Prologue
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Culture and Value (1980), p. 64e
Michel de Montaigne1533–1592Essais (wr. 1571–92; pub. 1580–95), Book I, Ch. 31. Of Divine Ordinances (tr. Cotton, rev. W. Hazlitt, 1842)
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943 (full text, audio).
Bruce Lee1940–1973Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview (1971)
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The Rambler (1750–1752), No. 2 (24 March 1750)
Will Rogers1879–1935Nationally syndicated column number 90, From Nuts To The Soup (31 August 1924); published in The New York Times- Thomas Carlyle1795–1881The Hero as Man of Letters
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Joseph Joubert1754–1824The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, tr. Paul Auster (1983)