Quotes on
Education, Knowledge and Learning
"The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit."
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill - Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverence."
"Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas."
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
"Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning."
"As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise."
"An intellectual improvement arises from leisure."
"Language is the dress of thought."
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it."
"The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit."
"The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small."
"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove."
"Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men."
"Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience."
-Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-84), English critic, biographer, essayist, poet, and lexicographer, regarded as one of the greatest literary figures of 18th-century life and letters.
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts." -- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918), American historian, writer
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul." -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719), English essayist, poet, statesman
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." -- Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher
"Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity." -- Lady Nancy Astor (1879-1964), English politician, first female member of the British Parliament
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not." -- Walter Bagehot (1826-77), British economist, journalist
"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind." -- Jacques Martin Barzun (b. 1907), American educator, historian, Dean of Graduate School, Columbia University
"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men." -- Bill Beattie
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." -- Derek Curtis Bok (b. 1930), American educator, University administrator, President, Harvard
"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade." -- Dr. (Felice) Leo(nardo) Buscaglia (b. 1924), American Professor of Education at USC
"Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong." -- Dr. (Felice) Leo(nardo) Buscaglia (b. 1924), American Professor of Education at USC
"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises." -- Dr. (Felice) Leo(nardo) Buscaglia (b. 1924), American Professor of Education at USC
"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Roman statesman, orator, philosopher
"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny." -- Norman Cousins (1915-90), American editor, writer, author, "Anatomy of an Illness"
"The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions." -- Bishop Creighton
"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it." -- Alexandre Dumas (1802-70), French writer, "Three Musketeers" and "Count of Monte Cristo"
"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others." -- Tryon Edwards (1809-94), Writer, author
"The education of the will is the object of our existence." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist
"The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education." -- Paul Karl Feyerabend (1924-94), Writer, author
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." -- Anatole France (1844-1924), French critic, writer, "Penguin Island"
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-90), American public official, writer, scientist, helped draft Constitution
"Much that passes for education ... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least." -- David P(ierpont) Gardner (b. 1933), President, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else." -- John W(illiam) Gardner (b. 1912), President, Carnegie Foundation
"A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching." -- A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti (1938-89), American educator, President, Yale
"The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce." -- Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (1877-1965), Dean Emeritus, Barnard College
"The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education." -- Paul E. Gray
"The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving." -- Russell Greene
"Nagging questions remain:Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter." -- Henry Anatole Grunwald, Editor in Chief, Time Inc.
"We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education ... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse." -- E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
"Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth." -- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), American author, "A Message to Garcia"
"We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it." -- Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977), Chancellor, University of Chicago
"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives." -- Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977), Chancellor, University of Chicago
"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding." -- Ezra Loomis Pound (1885-1972), American writer, poet, "Cantos," "ABC of Reading"
"Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?" -- Beah Richards
"What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides." -- Felix G. Rohatyn
"Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune." -- Jim Rohn
"The giving of love is an education in itself." -- (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), American diplomat, writer, US First Lady
"It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young." -- Bertrand Russel (1872-1970), British philosopher, mathematician, social critic, writer
"We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart." -- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), British writer of ballads, historical novels, "Waverley," "Ivanhoe"
"Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word." -- Alan Simpson, President, Vassar College
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." -- Donald G. Smith
"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook." -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), American writer, author, naturalist, "Civil Disobedience," "Walden"
"Our task is to provide an education for the kind of kids we have... Not the kind of kids we used to have... Or want to have... Or the kids that exist in our dreams." -- Mary Kay Utech
"Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income -- which he then spends sending his son to college." -- Bill Vaughan
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." -- H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells (1866-1946), English author, social thinker, "The War of the Worlds," "The Time Machine"
"The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest." -- Barbara M. White, President, Mills College
"Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue more clever than another." -- Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900), Irish writer, playwright, "The Importance of Being Earnest" "Picture of Dorian Gray"
Source:Http://www.quoteworld.org
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