Quotes about education
402 quotes from 240 people
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
Josh Billings1818–1885Often credited to Mark TwainI honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain’t so.
Josh Billings1818–1885“Sollum Thoughts”. in Everybody’s Friend: Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia & Proverbial Philosophy of Wit & Humor (1874)
William Blake1757–1827Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses, pp. xvii–xcviii (c. 1798–1809)
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986The Analytical Language of John Wilkins
Ray Bradbury1920–2012“All flesh is one: what matter scores?” in When Elephants Last In The Dooryard Bloomed: Celebrations For Almost Any Day In The Year (1973)If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you’ll never learn.
Ray Bradbury1920–2012Fahrenheit 451 (1953)Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861Poems (1844)
Robert Browning1812–1889Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Cleon.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873Zanoni (1842), Book IV, Chapter IVLearning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Volume iii, p. 335How shall the Shown pretend to ken aught of the Showman or the Show?
Richard Francis Burton1821–1890The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
George W. Bushborn 1946Campaign speech to the NAACP (2000).
