Quotes about education
402 quotes from 240 people
It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXXVIII: On liberal and vocational studies, Line 45.At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951On Certainty (1969), 253If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you’ll never learn.
Ray Bradbury1920–2012Fahrenheit 451 (1953)Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
Henry Miller1891–1980Tropic of Capricorn (1939)I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
E. E. Cummings1894–1962Collected Poems (1938), “New Poems: 22”Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Joseph Stalin1878–1953Interview with H. G. Wells (23 July 1934)
Aristotle384–322 BCRhetoric, Book II, 1395b.27
Sydney Smith1771–1845Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1849)
James A. Garfield1831–1881Letter accepting the Republican nomination to run for President (12 July 1880)
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter VII
Werner Heisenberg1901–1976Physics and Philosophy (1958)
Mark Twain1835–1910Statement (1906) in Mark Twain in Eruption: Hitherto Unpublished Pages About Men and Events (1940) edited by Bernard DeVoto
Russell Baker1925–2019“Back to the Dump” (p.414)
Abraham Maslow1908–1970The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (1971)
