Quotes about education
402 quotes from 240 people
The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.
George MacDonald1824–1905The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
John McAfee1945–2021Into the Heart of Truth (2001)
Malcolm X1925–1965Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (28 June 1964), as quoted in By Any Means Necessary (1970)
Isaac Asimov1920–1992The Roving Mind (1983), Ch. 25
Albert Einstein1879–1955Cosmic Religion: With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931), p. 97
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
Robert Frost1874–1963A Witness Tree (1942), “The Secret Sits”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)
Helen Keller1880–1968The Story of My Life (1903), Ch. 4It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.
Carl Sagan1934–1996Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 159I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Richard Feynman1918–1988What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988), “The Making of a Scientist”, p. 14I don’t know anything, but I do know that everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
Richard Feynman1918–1988From Omni interview, “The Smartest Man in the World” (1979) p. 203- Richard Feynman1918–1988The Value of Science (1955)
You do ill if you praise, and still worse if you reprove in a matter you do not understand.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, tr. J. P. Richter, XIX: Philosophical Maxims
