Quotes about education
402 quotes from 240 people
Francis Bacon1561–1626The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book I, v, 8- Francis Bacon1561–1626Meditationes Sacræ [Sacred Meditations] (1597), “De Hæresibus” [Of Heresies]
Russell Baker1925–2019“Back to the Dump” (p.414)We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.
Jean Baudrillard1929–2007“The Implosion of Meaning in the Media,” p. 79
Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986Force of Circumstances Vol. III (1963) as translated by Richard Howard (1968)
Tim Berners-Leeborn 1955Weaving the Web (1999)
Wendell Berry1934–2026What Are People For? (1990), “Healing”
Annie Besant1847–1933Annie Besant: An Autobiography (1893), p. 357; 3rd edition (1908), p. 357The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)Erudition, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
