Quotes about education
402 quotes from 240 people
The condition of mankind is to be weary of what we do know, and afraid of what we do not.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax1633–1695Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), “Moral Thoughts and Reflections”Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever has to be learned must be learned the hard way.
CCCarlos Castaneda1925–1998The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe (1998), “Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan” (Chapter 4)Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
W. E. B. Du Bois1868–1963Niagara Movement, “Address to the Country”, Harpers Ferry (19 August 1906)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
Franz Kafka1883–1924The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 (1948) (July 1910)- Doris Lessing1919–2013The Four-Gated City (1969)
Samuel Adams1722–1803Letter to James Warren (12 February 1779)
José Martí1853–1895Our America (1891)
Robertson Davies1913–1995A Voice from the Attic (1960)
Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986Force of Circumstances Vol. III (1963) as translated by Richard Howard (1968)
Annie Besant1847–1933Annie Besant: An Autobiography (1893), p. 357; 3rd edition (1908), p. 357
Mary Wollstonecraft1759–1797A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 3
Salman Rushdieborn 1947Salman Rushdie — Talking with David Frost (1993)
Bernard of Clairvaux1090–1153Epistola CVI, sect. 2; translation from Edward Churton The Early English Church ([1840] 1841) p. 324
Toni Morrison1931–2019Nobel Prize Lecture (1993)