Famously Said Random quote

Quotes about education

402 quotes from 240 people

Most readBy personPage 17 of 27

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Where the Mind Is Without Fear (1912), Gitanjali (1912)In context
- Freedom
- Knowledge
There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.
Emma Goldman1869–1940Answering questions after a speech in Detroit (1898), as recounted in Living My Life (1931), p. 207
- Knowledge
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986The Analytical Language of John Wilkins
- Knowledge
- Philosophy
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick1878–1969Riverside Sermons (1958), p. 22
- Knowledge
But though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows, that all arises out of experience.
Immanuel Kant1724–1804Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787), B 1
- Experience
- Knowledge
What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act.
Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855Journal entry, Gilleleie (1 August 1835) Journals 1A
- Knowledge
The framers of our Constitution firmly believed that a republican government could not endure without intelligence and education generally diffused among the people.
Ulysses S. Grant1822–1885Message to the Senate and House of Representatives (1870)
- Government
The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.
Max Stirner1806–1856The Ego and Its Own (1844), Cambridge 1995 ed., pp. 61-62
- Youth
I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
Francis Bacon1561–1626Letter to Lord Burghley (ca. 1593)
- Knowledge
Education is one of the blessings of life — and one of its necessities.
Malala Yousafzaiborn 1997Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (December 10, 2014)
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)
- Wisdom
While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 198
- Knowledge
- Luck
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are.
Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s, 1847
- Knowledge
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon1561–1626The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book I, v, 8
- Knowledge
- Thinking
If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
Clarence Darrow1857–1938Crime: Its Cause And Treatment (1922) Ch. 36 “Remedies”