Quotes about education
402 quotes from 240 people
The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Address at a White House dinner honoring Nobel Prize winners (29 April 1962), quoted in The White House Diary, at the JFK Library- John F. Kennedy1917–1963Address at the University of California at Berkeley
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Special Message to the Congress on Education (20 February 1961)
Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855Journal entry, Gilleleie (1 August 1835) Journals 1A- Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s, 1847
Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
Jiddu Krishnamurti1895–1986Education and the Significance of Life (1953)- Jiddu Krishnamurti1895–1986First Talk in Rajahmundry (20 November 1949), The Collected Works, Vol. VI, p. 5
- LLaozi580–501 BCTao Te Ching, Ch. 56
Ursula K. Le Guin1929–2018The Operating Instructions in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004)
Bruce Lee1940–1973Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview (1971)- Bruce Lee1940–1973Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 46
In university they don’t tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Doris Lessing1919–2013Martha Quest (1952), Part III, ch. 2- Doris Lessing1919–2013The Four-Gated City (1969)
Claude Lévi-Strauss1908–2009Tristes Tropiques (1955), Chapter 6: The Making of an Anthropologist, p. 55