Quotes about education
402 quotes from 240 people
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983The Wellspring of RealityWithout education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936In The Illustrated London News (1905–1907)Learning 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. 335
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Address at a White House dinner honoring Nobel Prize winners (29 April 1962), quoted in The White House Diary, at the JFK Library
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951On Certainty (1969), 378
Alexander Pope1688–1744Moral Essays (1731–1735), Epistle I, To Lord Cobham (1734), line 150That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), Bk. III, ch. 4.Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet there are those who love it!
Daniel Webster1782–1852Oral argument before the Supreme Court of the United States, March 10, 1818, in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. 518 (1918)
Marcus Aurelius121–180III, 11
George Santayana1863–1952The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1911), p. 58Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861Poems (1844)A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.
Richard Feynman1918–1988“The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics,” Nobel Lecture (11 December 1965)
Socrates470–399 BCPlato, Republic, 493a
Anatole France1844–1924The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), Pt. II, ch. 4