Quotes about education
402 quotes from 240 people
Oscar Wilde1854–1900A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle384–322 BCAttributed to Aristotle; reported in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, trans. R. D. Hicks (1942), vol. 1, book 5, section 19, p. 463
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s AlmanackLiberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Address at Vanderbilt UniversityEducation doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 16
Mark Twain1835–1910Mark Twain’s Notebook (1935), p. 346History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
- Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Ben Franklin, as quoted in Exercises in English Grammar (1909) by M. A. Morse.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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.
