Quotes about education
402 quotes from 240 people
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.
I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
Douglas Adams1952–2001The Salmon of Doubt (2002)- JAJames Truslow Adams1878–1949Often credited to John Adams
John Adams1735–1826Letter to Abigail Adams (29 October 1775), published Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife, Vol. 1 (1841), ed. Charles Francis Adams, p. 72
John Quincy Adams1767–1848Report on the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution (c. 1846)
Samuel Adams1722–1803Letter to James Warren (12 February 1779)What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 215 (6 November 1711)- Joseph Addison1672–1719The Guardian (1713), No. 111
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieborn 1977Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), Part 1, Ch. 1
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913), Section 9: Ethical OutlookIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle384–322 BCThe Lives and Opinions of Eminent PhilosophersThe educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle384–322 BCAttributed to Aristotle; reported in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, trans. R. D. Hicks (1942), vol. 1, book 5, section 19, p. 463
