Quotes about education
402 quotes from 240 people
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Ben Franklin, as quoted in Exercises in English Grammar (1909) by M. A. Morse.If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Ben Franklin, as quoted in Exercises in English Grammar (1909) by M. A. Morse.There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790John Maxwell Failing Forward: How to Make the Most of Your Mistakes, Thomas Nelson Inc, 8 March 2000, p. 65.Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
Robert Frost1874–1963A Witness Tree (1942), “The Secret Sits”
Robert Fulghumborn 1937All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten.
Robert Fulghumborn 1937All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983The Wellspring of RealityLearning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Thomas Fuller1608–1661The Holy State and the Profane State (1642), Of BooksLive as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
James A. Garfield1831–1881Letter accepting the Republican nomination to run for President (12 July 1880)
