Quotes about education
402 quotes from 240 people
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Horace Mann1796–1859Lectures on Education (1855), Lecture 1Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Essay to Leo Baeck (1953), Ideas and OpinionsFor the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.
Aristotle384–322 BCNicomachean Ethics, Book II, 1103a.33: Cited in: Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (2005), 21:9There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
Will Rogers1879–1935The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949)Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970A History of Western Philosophy (1945)Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides481–407 BCFrg. 1028 (Bartlett’s, 1892)Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Speech in the House of Commons (15 June 1874)As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Table-Talk (1857)Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein1874–1946Reflections on the Atom Bomb (1946)Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973The Great Society (May 22, 1964)We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.
Jean Baudrillard1929–2007“The Implosion of Meaning in the Media,” p. 79Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Ch. XIIIBeware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
John Wesley1703–1791Letter to Joseph Benson (7 November 1768); published in The Letters of John Wesley (1915) edited by George EayrsDo not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.
Erasmus1466–1536Letter to Christian Northoff (1497), as translated in Collected Works of Erasmus (1974), p. 115