Quotes about education
402 quotes from 240 people
John Locke1632–1704Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), Sec. 70
Thomas Sowellborn 1930Knowledge and Decisions (1980; 1996), Ch. 1 : The Role of Knowledge
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours (24 April 1816)- Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to John Adams (1 August 1816)
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)Blessed is he who has been able to win knowledge of the causes of things.
Virgil70–19 BCGeorgics (29 BC), Book II, line 490 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough); homage to Lucretius.
Arthur Miller1915–2005Commenting on After the Fall (1964) in The Saturday Evening Post (February 1, 1964)
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter XIV
Bertrand Russell1872–1970In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), Ch. 2: ‘Useless’ Knowledge
Michel Foucault1926–1984Discipline and Punish (1977) as translated by Alan Sheridan, p. 228
Zora Neale Hurston1891–1960Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 10: Research, p. 143Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957His motto, in the preamble of Charakteranalyse (1933)
John Steinbeck1902–1968“…like captured fireflies” (1955)
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Speech in the House of Commons (14 May 1866)
William Hazlitt1778–1830Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852), “On Prejudice”