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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

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50 of the Best Quotes About Education

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Being an educator is not always the easiest job, but knowing you have made an impact on students’ lives can be so rewarding. Through all of the good times and bad, you continue to persevere and provide education to students of all backgrounds and abilities. We collected 50 of the best quotes about education to celebrate the best parts of teaching, learning, and the impact they have on the world.

Our Favorite Quotes About Education

“education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.” — malcolm x.

“Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” — Elin Nordegren

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” — Malcolm Forbes

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” — Sydney J. Harris

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” — Abigail Adams

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. … Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“A person who won’t read has no advantage over a person who can’t read.” — Mark Twain

“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” — Unknown

“Education is the key to unlock a golden door of freedom.” — George Washington Carver

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” — Herbert Spencer

“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” — John F. Kennedy

“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.” — George Santayana

“The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” — Aristotle

“Education must not simply teach work, it must teach Life.” — W.E.B Du Bois

“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” — Horace Mann

“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.” — Steve Irwin

“Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.” — Sidney Hook

“All real education is the architecture of the soul.” — William Bennett

“Education is the key which will unlock the door of opportunity for you.” — Gordon B. Hinckley

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” — Maya Angelou

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” — Bill Nye

“The highest result of education is tolerance.” — Helen Keller

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” — Aristotle

“To teach is to learn twice.” — Joseph Joubert

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” — Plutarch

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” — Confucius

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” — Mark Van Doren

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” — Margaret Mead

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” — Henry Ford

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” — Henry Brooks Adams

“They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.” — Carl W. Buehner

“A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.” — Eliphas Levi

“One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.” — Malala Yousafzai

“Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.” — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” — Isaac Asimov

“Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.” — Ezra Pound

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” — Marian Wright Edelman

“It is only the ignorant who despise education.” — Publilius Syrus

“A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.” — Gwendolyn Brooks

“I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.” — William Morris

“Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.” — Nancy Astor

“It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.” — Norman Cousins

“The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.” — John Ruskin

“Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.” — Horace Mann

“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” — Daniel J. Boorstin

“Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.” — Frederick William Robertson

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.” — Edward Everett

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30 Education Quotes to Appreciate the Gift of Knowledge

Education unlocks your mind, offers endless possibilities and expands your horizons here are 30 education quotes to appreciate the gift of knowledge..

Education unlocks your mind and expands your horizons. Knowledge helps you see the world in a whole different perspective -- it’s like stepping out of the darkness into the light.

Education is so much more than what we learn in school. It also consists of what our parents pass on to us, what we learn out of curiosity, what we learn from others and from our own life experiences.

When you want to know more about something, you invite truth and possibility into your life. You develop critical thinking and you become better at making your own decisions. When you educate yourself, you become independent and powerful. The facts that you know become tools that no one can take away from you.

The world we live in is a fascinating place, and the more we know about it, the better we become at living in it. We hope that the following education quotes will awaken you thirst for knowledge. Because regardless of your age, there’s still so much left to learn about.

Here are 30 education quotes to appreciate the gift of knowledge:

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ( more Martin Luther King Jr. quotes )

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ARISTOTLE ( more Aristotle quotes )

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. NELSON MANDELA ( more Nelson Mandela quotes )

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. VICTOR HUGO

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; AND if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. CHINESE PROVERB

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. MALCOLM X ( more Malcolm X quotes )

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn … and change. CARL ROGERS

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. SYDNEY J. HARRIS

What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul. JOSEPH ADDISON

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ANDY MCINTYRE

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ARISTOTLE

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.  ALBERT EINSTEIN ( more Albert Einstein quotes )

Change is the end result of all true learning. LEO BUSCAGLIA

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. JIM ROHN ( more Jim Rohn quotes )

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. CHINESE PROVERB

The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. DR. SEUSS ( more Dr. Seuss quotes )

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time – for we are bound by that – but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time. T.S. ELIOT

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.   MAHATMA GANDHI ( more Mahatma Gandhi quotes )

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? ERICH FROMM

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

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. PETER BROUGHAM

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. CHINESE PROVERB

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. GEORGE SANTAYANA

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. HELEN KELLER

Upon the subject of education… I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. ABRAHAM LINCOLN ( more Abraham Lincoln quotes )

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. B. B. KING

When you educate one person you can change a life, when you educate many you can change the world. SHAI RESHEF

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. G.K. CHESTERTON

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. JAMES BALDWIN

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It all began when a sweet elderly woman entered the Westpac branch Karbowski worked at. But despite appearances, Karbowski couldn't help but notice there was something suspicious about this woman.

When the client (who remained anonymous) approached Karbowski's desk, she revealed her shocking intentions for showing up that day and it instantly raised a red flag for Karbowski. This elderly client had suddenly decided she wanted to sell her home and cancel her Westpac home insurance.

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A reverse Google search heartbreakingly revealed that this mysterious "boyfriend" was not who he said he was. Many of the photos the woman had received from her purported beau were found online, stolen from other people's accounts with different names. When Karbowski realized her client had already negotiated the sale of her home, she felt sick to her stomach.

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35 Inspiring Quotes about Education

Sometimes it can be hard to remember why education and learning is important. I have vivid memories from college where I wanted to drop out and how I was so done with school. When that happened, I thought about my why, my purpose. Below are 35 spectacular quotes about education and learning to remind yourself how important it is to learn! These are great for a motivational push when you want to give up on that paper or for a custom teacher’s gift or card. 

As a teacher, my favorite quotes about education from this list are numbers 9, 17, 21, and 30. I’ve seen lots of teacher shirts and things that have those quotes on them!

• “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
• “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
• “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats
• “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.” – Plato
• “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” – George Washington Carver
• “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
• “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey
• “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
• “Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.” – Christine Gregoire
• “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
• “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
• “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.” – Aristotle
• “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “Education is the foundation of all progress.” – John F. Kennedy
• “Education is the movement from darkness to light.” – Allan Bloom
• “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” – Confucius
• “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” – Kofi Annan

• “Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.” – Brad Henry
• “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer
• “Education is the foundation of opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey
• “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch
• “Education is the vaccine for violence.” – Edward James Olmos
• “The educated man is the man who can stimulate his own mind.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
• “Education is not about memorizing facts, but about understanding how to think.” – Albert Einstein
• “The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes
• “Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.” – Nora Ephron
• “Education is the foundation of a strong and informed society.” – Elizabeth Warren
• “Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” – Chinese Proverb
• “Education is the engine of personal development.” – Peter Thiel
• “The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.” – Aristotle
• “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” – Diogenes Laertius
• “Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
• “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” – William S. Burroughs
• “Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.” – Solomon Ortiz

Which quotes about education are your favorite from the list? Or do you have another that inspires you? Share in the comments below!

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11 comments.

Excellent quotes! My favorite one is “Education is not about memorizing facts, but about understanding how to think.” – Albert Einstein

I love all the quotes in this post. My favorites are 5 and 15. So much truth in them!

I love all these quotes about education. My favorite is “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” Education is life, I think it surmarises everything.

Love all of these, number 13 is my personal favorite I would say. Thanks so much for sharing so much inspiration.

This is an awesome collection of quotes. This is by far my favorite: “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

Education is the magic bullet that can take your life where you want it to go. It is the key to rising from poverty and bad circumstances.

Thank you for sharing these amazing quotes. Number 24 “Education is not about memorizing facts, but about understanding how to think.” – Albert Einstein – is really what education should be about.

I’m a former teacher. Love these quotes!

“The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know,” by Aristotle is one of my favorite quotes! A mind that always wants to learn is the best mind.

such a great list of quotes

Loved this! Great list of quotes! 🙂

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80 Best Quotes on Education to Remind Us of Its Value

Last Updated on March 1, 2024

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Education is a human right, and it has always been an integral part of our lives. When you think of education, it always goes hand in hand with gaining knowledge and the necessary skills to help you navigate through life. 

Unsurprisingly, it comes with many benefits such as learning new things, honing existing skills, and having the opportunity to expand one’s network.

It allows you to express your views and to utilize your resources and knowledge in the best ways possible. Education helps you think critically, and it creates numerous opportunities for advancement and the promotion of equality as well. 

Numerous Benefits of Education

Aside from the obvious benefits to personal advancement, education also benefits society and your community. It is a key factor in reducing poverty, having a healthy lifestyle, following your passions, and promoting empowerment within your community. 

Education is also critical to peacekeeping efforts, promoting gender equality, and inclusive education. According to the Global Partnership for Education , it can reduce the risk of conflict by 20%. Additionally, in GPE partner countries, there was improved equity for girls, particularly in rural and poor communities. 

Education broadens our minds and gives us more opportunities as well. It creates a better world for us to live in, and it is a continuous process that begins early on in childhood.

A Great Education to Change the World

There are several factors that contribute to great education. Here are some of them:

• An early start by way of early childhood education.
• Having great, effective teachers who are well-trained and well-equipped to support a student’s learning.
• Being able to meet the needs of all children, regardless of their background, race, gender, and abilities.
• Receiving an education that leads to actual learning.

Making the Best of Education

Now that you’ve realized the value of a good education, it’s time to make the most out of it. 

If you’re a learner of any age, here are some simple ways to make learning work better for you, enabling you to make the most out of education:

• Be organized.

Organize your tasks and schedule, as well as your study area. This way, you won’t be wasting any time looking for pencils or scrambling to keep up with last-minute tasks.

• Avoid multitasking.

While multitasking may seem to solve our problems with our increasing tasks, it’s just technically impossible to be on track. Multitasking is actually just switching from one task to another, which can affect productivity and may even promote distraction, depression, and anxiety. 

• Get rid of distractions.

Distractions take on many different forms. While combating distractions may seem like a losing battle, the key, says speaker and author Daniel Wong , is to remove distractions before they actually become distractions. According to Wong, this entails turning off notifications, separating yourself from your phone or tablet, and maybe even restricting your access to the Internet. 

• Get a good night’s sleep.

Having a good night’s sleep can help improve your focus and memory, and it can help make you an effective learner as well. 

There’s no denying the importance of education. Here are some inspirational quotes on education and the power of learning:

Powerful Education Quotes

• “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain
• “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” – Oscar Wilde
• “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” – Brigham Young
• “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Augustine
• “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
• “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” – Maya Angelou
• “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” – Walter Cronkite
• “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost
• “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead
• “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” – Thomas Paine
• “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.” – Mark Twain
• “Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.” – Steven Spielberg
• “If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.” – Frank Zappa
• “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr .
• “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” – Aristotle
• “Marriage can wait, education cannot.” – Khaled Hosseini
• “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” – Plato
• “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” – Robert Frost
• “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch
• “You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” – George Clooney
• “There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
• “All of life is a constant education.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
• “I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
• “It is clearly absurd to limit the term ‘education’ to a person’s formal schooling.” – Murray N. Rothbard
• “School prepares you for the real world…which also bites.” – Jim Benton
• “Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.” – John Adams
• “My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.” – Mary Shelley
• “The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.” – Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
• “A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.” – Wendell Berry
• “No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.” – K. Chesterton
• “A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.” – Ruth Beechick
• “I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time.” – Mary Ann Shaffer
• “We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “…what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.” – Norton Juster
• “It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educated.” – Edith Hamilton
• “The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.” – Immanuel Kant
• “To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.” – Leo Tolstoy
• “The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.” – C.S. Lewis
• “Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.” – Mark Twain
• “It’s what we think we know that keeps us from learning.” – Claude Bernard
• “You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.” – Henri Nouwen
• “It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.” – Herbert M. Shelton
• “Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.” – F. Skinner
• “Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.” – Stephen R. Covey
• “Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.” – Beatrix Potter
• “Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai
• “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” – Warren Buffett
• “A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.” – Anne Bishop
• “Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life.” – JoyBell C.
• “Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.” – Frank Herbert
• “Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.” – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
• “When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men’s [children’s] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.” – Cicero
• “True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.” – David O. McKay
• “Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting.” – Ivan Illich
• “We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.” – Freeman Dyson
• “It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.” – Cormac McCarthy
• “He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.” – Isaac Newton
• “Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.” – John Lubbock
• “Progress just means bad things happen faster.” – Terry Pratchett
• “In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?” – George Washington
• “Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.” – Peter S. Jennison
• “When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.” – John Taylor Gatto
• “People think of education as something they can finish.” – Isaac Asimov
• “Only the educated are free.” – Epictetus
• “When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it’s amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.” – Greg Mortenson
• “I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.” – Agatha Christie
• “Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.” – Confucius
• “The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think.” – Thomas A. Edison
• “There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.” – Thomas Jefferson
• “Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.” – Frantz Fanon
• “School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.” – Ivan Illich
• “The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.” – Lawrence Krauss
• “Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.” – Chuang Tzu
• “When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.” – P.J. Abdul Kalam
• “Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” – Joseph Stalin
• “Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.” – Victor Hugo
• “Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.” – Iris Murdoch
• “What I learned on my own I still remember.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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102 Quintessential Quotes About Education

September 13, 2023 //  by  Lauren Du Plessis

Education is one of the many life forces of our generation! Without it, we’d run into a multitude of problems. Because our students don’t always see it this way, it’s important to take the time to reignite their passion for learning. To help you achieve this, we’ve collected 102 quintessential quotes about education. Decorate your classroom with them, consider implementing a quote of the day into your morning routine, or even print and laminate them to distribute amongst your students at the start of the year. 

1. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats

2. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain

3. “Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.” – Lyndon B. Johnson

4. “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Derek Bok

5. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker

6. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle

7. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

8. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

9. “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” – Abigail Adams

10. “Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.” – Shakuntala Devi

11. “The best education is not given to students; it is drawn out of them.” – Gerald Belcher

12. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

13. “Education is the movement from darkness to light.” – Allan Bloom.

14. “The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.” – Jean Piaget

15. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor

16. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X

17. “I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” – Albert Einstein

18. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris

19. “Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” – Colleen Wilcox

20. “Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.” – Christine Gregoire

21. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey

22. “The purpose of education is to an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes

23. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch

24. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

25. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King

26. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” – Carl Rogers

27. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry Adams

28. “Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.” – Brigham Young

29. “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” – Socrates

30. “Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions.” – William Allin

31. “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

32. “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” – Albert Einstein

33. “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” – William S. Burroughs

34. “Education is not received. It is achieved.” – Albert Einstein

35. “Intelligence plus character – that is the true goal of education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

36. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

37. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

38. “The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.” – Mortimer Adler

39. “Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats

40. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates

41. “Education is not about filling a pail, but about lighting a fire.” – W.B. Yeats

42. “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” – George Washington Carver

43. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King

44. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein

45. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

46. “To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” – Theodore Roosevelt

47. “Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.” – Lyndon B. Johnson

48. “The future belongs to the educated.” – Barack Obama

49. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats

50. “Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.” – Shakuntala Devi

51. “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” – Abraham Lincoln

52. “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.” – Plato

53. “Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or in the same way.” – George Evans

54. “A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” – Brad Henry

55. “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” – G.K. Chesterton

56. “Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.” – Abraham Lincoln

57. “A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” – Helen Keller

58. “The learning process continues until the day you die.” – Kirk Douglas

59. “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” – Oscar Wilde

60. “A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.” – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

61. “Education is the movement from darkness to light.” – Allan Bloom

62. “A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.” – Mark Twain

63. “Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci

64. “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” – Edward Everett

65. “The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” – Robert Maynard Hutchins

66. “In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.” – Baba Dioum

67. “The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think.” – James Beattie

68. “Education is the most effective way to break out of the poverty cycle.” – Charles B. Rangel

69. “Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” – G.K. Chesterton

70. “Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” – Kofi Annan

71. “Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.” – Adelaide Hoodless

72. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

73. “Change is the end result of all true learning.” – Leo Buscaglia

74. “Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.” – Christine Gregoire

75. “Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.” – John Ruskin

76. “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.” – Mark Twain

77. “I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.” – Oprah Winfrey

78. “Only the educated are free.” – Epictetus

79. “In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.” – William Allen White

80. “The highest result of education is tolerance.” – Helen Keller

81. “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

82. “Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” – Plato

83. “Education is the art of making man ethical.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

84. “The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” – Robert M. Hutchins

85. “Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.” – Maria Montessori

86. “The education of a man is never completed until he dies.” – Robert E. Lee

87. “To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.” – Muriel Spark

88. “Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.” – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

89. “Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects.” – Robert M. Hutchins

90. “Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.” – John Adams

91. “Education is not a pail to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.” – Plutarch

92 . “Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.” – John Locke

93. “The future of the world is in my classroom today.” – Ivan Welton Fitzwater

94. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle

95. “The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.” – Wendell Phillips

96. “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” – Albert Einstein

97. “To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” – Theodore Roosevelt

98. “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant

99. “The best education I have ever received was through travel.” – Lisa Ling

100. “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” – Abraham Maslow

101. “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” – Chanakya

102. “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” – Confucius

Education Quotes

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• “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

Education enables us to adapt and flourish, engenders a spirit of inquiry, broadens horizons and equips us to tackle problems head on. It changes lives.

Here’s a list of over 100 quotes about education divided into the following categories:

• Our top ten quotes about education

Inspirational quotes about education

Education quotes for students, early childhood education quotes.

• Famous Education quotes

Albert Einstein quotes on education

• Education quotes – Nelson Mandela

Top ten education quotes

• “If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” – Chinese proverb

“Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.” – B. Yeats

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X

• “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “Education is a better guarantee of liberty than a standing army.” – Edward Everett
• “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Andy McIntyre

“A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.” Andy Hargreaves

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey

• “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” – Albert Einstein
• “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” – Brigham Young
• “What a sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.” – Joseph Addison
• “If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.” – Jim Rohn
• “The highest result of education is tolerance.” Helen Keller
• “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost
• “Be careful. Everything you say, every single day, may be recorded in your students’ hearts forever.” – LouAnne Johnson in Dangerous Minds
• “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.” – Mark Twain
• “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”― C.S. Lewis
• “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” ― C.S. Lewis
•  “Nine tenths of education is encouragement.” – Anatole France
• “It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time – for we are bound by that- but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.” -T.S. Eliot
• “Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.” – John Hersey
•  “Education is the ability to meet life’s situations.” – Dr. John G. Hibben
• “It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.” – Agnes Repplierg
• “Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
• “If a seed of a lettuce will not grow, we do not blame the lettuce. Instead, the fault lies with us for not having nourished the seed properly.” – Buddhist proverb
• “When you educate one person you change a life, when you educate many you can change the world.” – Shai Reshef
• “Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” – Marian Wright Edelman
• “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.”– Chanakya
• “The direction in which education starts a man, will determine his future life.” – Plato
• “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” – Confucius
• “Educators are the only people who lose sleep over other people’s children.” – Nicholas A. Ferroni
• “Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” – Japanese Proverb
• “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.” – Aristotle
• “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” Aristotle
• “Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” – Ernest Dimnet
• “The purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris
• “If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother, and the teacher.” – Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
• “Education is supposed to juice your curiosity, not diminish or sate it.” – Walter Isaacson
• “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” – Walter Cronkite
• “Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” – D J Boorstin
• “A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.” – Norman Cousins
• “He who opens a school door closes a prison.” – Victor Hugo
• “The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” – Robert M Hutchins
• “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer
• “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another,” G K Chesterton
• “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” – Confucius
• “It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education, than to have education without common sense.” R G Ingersoll
• “Education is the progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durrant
• “Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” – Peter Brougham
• “The content of a book holds the power of education, and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.” -Malala Yousafzai
• “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle
• “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” – Diognes
• “Education is the movement from darkness to light.” – Allan Bloom
• “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” – William S. Burroughs
• “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain
• “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward.” – George Weah
• “Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.” – Vernon Howard
•  “Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” – Abigail Adams
• “Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.” – Oprah Winfrey 
• “Only the educated are free.” – Epictetus
• “Despise school and remain a fool.” – German proverb
• “They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace.” – Malala Yousafzai
• “A child without education is like a bird without wings.” -Tibetan Proverb
• “The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
• “Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.” – William Haley
• “Education is the key that unlocks the golden door to freedom.” – George Washington Carver
• “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes
• “Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work.” – William Crawford
• “A mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
• “The best education is not given to students; it is drawn out of them.” – Gerald Belcher
• “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
• “You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.” –Lyndon B. Johnson
• “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 know and what you don’t.” – Anatole France
• “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” – Carl Rogers
• “To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.” – Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” – Thomas Paine
• “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.” – Plato
• “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.” – Henry Ford
• “Don’t make up your mind. Knowing” is the end of learning.” – Naval Ravikant
• “Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play, children learn how to learn.” – O. Fred Donaldson
• “To reach real peace in the world, we will have to begin with the children.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “A child miseducated is a child lost.” – John F. Kennedy
• “Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.”- Maria Montessori
• “The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.” – John Lubbock
• “The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that even the most disadvantaged children have the opportunity to succeed along side their more advantaged peers.” – James Heckman
• “Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.” – Yoda

Famous education quotes

•  “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
• “Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.” – Nelson Mandela
•  “From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.” – Nelson Mandela
• “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” – Albert Einstein
• “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” – Albert Einstein
• “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
• “The ability to read, write, and analyze; the confidence to stand up and demand justice and equality; the qualifications and connections to get your foot in the door and take your seat at the table – all of that starts with education.” – Michelle Obama
• “Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
• “To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” – Theodore Roosevelt
• “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
• “The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” – Abraham Lincoln
• “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” – Oscar Wilde
• “The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” – John F. Kennedy
• “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress in every society, in every family.” – Kofi Annan
• “The principal goal of education in schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.” – Jean Piaget

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” 

• “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” 
• “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” 
• “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
• “Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.”
• “’I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.’’
• “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
• ‘’It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.’‘
•  “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity.’’
• ”The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgement should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge. . .” 

 Nelson Mandela Education quotes

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

•  “Education is the great engine to personal development.” 
• “Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.”
• “Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.”
•  “Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities. We all know that education, more than anything else, improves your chances of building better lives.” 
•  “From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.”

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106 Inspirational Education Quotes for Students & Teachers

These inspiring educational quotes will show students, teachers and parents the power of learning. Wether you’re looking to motivate kids or young adults in the classroom, or other teachers and colleagues, this is the wisdom they need to thrive and be their very best version of themselves.

Also make sure to see these inspirational quotes for kids (if you’re looking to inspire and motivate the next generation).

Education Quotes

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.” – Malala Yousafzai

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch

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“Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.” – Aldous Huxley

“Education without application is just entertainment.” – Tim Sanders

“Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.” – Mark Twain

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“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin

“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.” – Francis Bacon

“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” – Chanakya

“A good education is a foundation for a better future.” – Elizabeth Warren

“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” – Mark Twain

“You learn something every day if you pay attention.” – Ray LeBlond

“School exams are memory tests, in the real world no one is going to stop you from referring to a book to solve a problem.” – Amit Kalantri

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking

“You cannot open a book without learning something.” – Confucius

“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” – Chinese Proverb

“The road to freedom –here and everywhere on earth-– begins in the classroom.” – Hubert Humphrey

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.” – Doris Lessing

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” – Dorothy Parker

“The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” – Mary McLeod Bethune

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” – C. S. Lewis

“Education is a once in a lifetime opportunity to open children’s hearts and minds to the unbelievable wonder of the universe.” – Sir Anthony Seldon

“Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.” – John Dewey

“All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing and not moving toward excellence.” – Denis Waitley

“The real key to learning something quickly is to take a deliberate, intelligent approach to your learning.” – Lindsay Kolowich

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein

“Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.” – Eric Fromm

“Education is the great engine to personal development.” – Nelson Mandela

“Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” – Elin Nordegren

“All of life is a constant education.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.” – Brigham Young

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” – Auguste Rodin

“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” – William Burroughs

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” – Chinese Proverb

“You’ll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.” – Julia Child

“Education should not be reading about the past rather it should be about addressing the present.” – Rajesh Walecha

“Take what you learn and make a difference with it.” – Tony Robbins

“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.” – Horace Mann

“Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.” – Confucius

“Life is an open book test. Learning how to learn is your most valuable skill in the online world.” – Marc Cuban

“Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.” – Anatole France

“Intelligence and education that hasn’t been tempered by human affection isn’t worth a damn.” – Daniel Keyes

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant

“Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.” – George Evans

“We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.” – Michelle Obama

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Andy McIntyre

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.” – Mark Twain

“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” – John Wooden

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie

“Education around entrepreneurship should start early, at secondary level, and be very robust by college level.” – Stephen A. Schwarzman

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” – Albert Einstein

“The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.” – John Dewey

“Only the educated are free.” – Epictetus

“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” – Tom Bodett

“When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.” – William Glasser

“They cannot stop me. I will get my education if it is in the home, school, or any place.” – Malala Yousafzai

“The learned man knows that he is ignorant.” – Victor Hugo

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” – Gloria Steinem

“School is the path, not the point.” – Will Richardson

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” – Lily Tomlin

“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” – Peter Drucker

“Education is the transmission of civilization.” – Will Durant

“Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later” – Dana Stewart Scott

“Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities.” – Nelson Mandela

“All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.” – David Hawkins

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” – Richard Feynman

“Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.” – John Holt

“Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.” – Robin Williams

“Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats

“If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.” – Brad Sherman

“We all know that education, more than anything else, improves your chances of building better lives.” – Nelson Mandela

“I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.” – Ann Brashares

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer

“The learning process continues until the day you die.” – Kirk Douglas

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B.King

“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso

“Education is everything- education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.” – Ciara

“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.” – Epictetus

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.” – Gustave Flaubert

“No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.” – Nelson Mandela

“All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” – Martin Fisher

“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” – William Arthur Ward

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey

“All things good to know are difficult to learn.” – Greek proverb

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson

“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“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

“To delight in literature is to desire to learn.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller

“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” – Thomas Carruthers

“The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.” – George Santayana

“Let’s recommit to work towards our common goal: a nation where all of us are winners, all of us have shelter, food, and education.” – Nelson Mandela

“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” – Ayn Rand

“No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.” – Nelson Mandela

“I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time.” – Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.” – Will Rogers

“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi

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45+ Best Quotes About Education For Knowledge & Acheivement

Nowadays, education usually starts as soon as a child takes birth. But  Quotes about education   will remind you that education doesn’t only mean learning according to your school or college curriculum.

Education means learning primary things, like talking, understanding, expressing, speaking, and walking. Primarily our parents impart this knowledge to us. Then when we grow up and come face-to-face with the real world, and educate ourselves more and more to get established when we start going to schools and colleges.

It is the formal education we all receive. But education is an ever-continuing process. So, never think that scoring high in college and getting a good job will end this process of gaining knowledge.

Books, indeed, teach us a lot about the world, but life teaches you survival lessons. So, your life is your best teacher, and you must remember that. You must understand that education is limitless, and there is no age for educating yourself. Thus, we list some valuable  Quotes about education  to motivate you so that you never stop educating yourself.

Famous Quotes About Education For the Power Of Knowledge

1. Martin Luther King, Jr. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”

2. Nelson Mandela “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

3. Benjamin Franklin “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

4. Aristotle “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

5. William Butler Yeats “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

6. Mahatma Gandhi “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

7. Aristotle “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

8. Malcolm X “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

9. Helen Keller “The highest result of education is tolerance.”

10. Kofi Annan “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”

Quotes About Education And Success

1. Robert Frost “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

2. Theodore Roosevelt “A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”

3. Nelson Mandela “Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation.”

4. John Dewey “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. When we make of it an outlet for our best energy, we see its meaning in the world. It equips us with insight into ourselves and society, it purifies our desires and gives freer play to our best impulses.”

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson “The man who can make hard things easy is the educator. By opening the understanding, he sets free the machine so that its various parts work harmoniously and with the maximum of power.”

6. Horace Mann “Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”

7. Albert Einstein “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. For while you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.”

8. Frederick Douglass “Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.”

9. W.B. Yeats “Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire. For the mind to flower, it has to go beyond what it knows and venture into the early morning of things. From such ventures, the tree of knowledge grows and spreads its branches.”

10. Benjamin Franklin “An investment in knowledge always pays the best dividends. Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” Each of these quotes emphasizes the inextricable link between education and success and underscores the transformational power of learning.

Education Quotes For Student Motivation

1. Albert Einstein “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”

2. Confucius “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

3. A.P.J Abdul Kalam “Your best teacher is your last mistake.”

4. Malala Yousafzai “One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.”

5. Dr. Seuss “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

6. Vince Lombardi “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”

7. Winston Churchill “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

8. Henry Ford “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

9. Mark Twain “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

10. Michael Jordan “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

Educational Quotes For Lifelong Learning

1. Albert Einstein “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”

2. Henry Ford “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

3. Isaac Newton “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

4. Mahatma Gandhi “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

5. Leonardo da Vinci “Learning never exhausts the mind.”

6. Socrates “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”

7. Robert Louis Stevenson “To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

8.   “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.”

9. Clay P. Bedford “You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”

10. Shunryu Suzuki “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.”

Quotes On the Importance Of Education

Certainly! The “Importance of Education” is a broad topic that has been explored and extolled by many thinkers, writers, and leaders throughout history. Below are some ideas centered on the theme of the “Importance of Education”:

1. Education as a Tool for Change Quote: “Through the pages of books and the whispers of history, education gives us the power to mold the future.”

2. Education and Personal Growth Quote: “Education is the seed of self-discovery, nurturing us to bloom in the garden of life.”

3. Empowerment through Knowledge Quote: “Armed with education, one stands undefeated, for knowledge is the shield against ignorance and the sword against oppression.”

4. The Timeless Nature of Education Quote: “Generations come and go, but the light of education remains eternal, guiding souls through the corridors of time.”

5. Education and Freedom Quote: “True freedom isn’t just a lack of chains; it’s the presence of knowledge. With education, we unshackle the mind.”

6. Building Societies through Education Quote: “A society grows great not by its riches, but by the wisdom it nurtures and shares. Education is the cornerstone of civilizations.”

7. Transformative Power of Education Quote: “Education isn’t just about learning facts; it’s the alchemy that turns raw potential into pure gold.”

8. Education as a Right, Not a Privilege Quote: “Every heart has a rhythm, every soul a song, and every mind the right to knowledge. Education belongs to all.”

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By: Melissa Coleman Last Updated: Aug 30, 2023 This post may contain affiliate links.

Discover inspiration and wisdom with this curated collection of thought-provoking quotes about education . From renowned thinkers to modern visionaries, explore words that celebrate the power of learning, knowledge, and the journey of growth that is perfect for students and teachers. Dive into a world of educational insights through these impactful quotes.

For both teachers and students, education is a transformative experience that shapes minds, ignites curiosity, and paves the way for a brighter future. Whether you're an educator dedicated to nurturing young minds or a student eager to absorb knowledge like a sponge, one thing is certain: the power of words can truly captivate and motivate. In this blog post, we've gathered a treasure trove of insightful quotes about education. These quotes encapsulate the essence of teaching and learning, offering guidance, encouragement, and a fresh perspective on the educational voyage. Join us as we explore these words of wisdom that celebrate the intricate dance between teachers, students, and the pursuit of knowledge.

• “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” – Bill Nye
• “You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.” – Conrad Hall
• “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris
• “Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” – Ernest Dimnet
• “Every artist was at first an amateur.” – Ralph W. Emerson
• “Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.” ― Mark Twain
• “All men by nature desire to know.” – Aristotle
• “Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life.“ – W. E. B. Du Bois
• “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” – Alexander the Great
• “Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning.” ― Anton Chekhov
• “Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward.” – George Weah
• “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” – Chanakya
• “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”― William Butler Yeats
• “A good education is a foundation for a better future.” – Elizabeth Warren
• “Education is a once in a lifetime opportunity to open children’s hearts and minds to the unbelievable wonder of the universe.”– Sir Anthony Seldon
• “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ― Jim Rohn
• “The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” ― Michel Legrand
• “By seeking and blundering we learn.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• “School is the path, not the point.” – Will Richardson
• “Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.” – Robin Williams
• “When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.” ― John Taylor Gatto
• “Only the educated are free.” ― Epictetus
• “The real key to learning something quickly is to take a deliberate, intelligent approach to your learning.”– Lindsay Kolowich
• “Do not confine your children to your own learning for they were born in another time.” – Hebrew Proverb

Learning Beyond Boundaries: Notable Quotes About Education

• “I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time.” ― Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
• “I don’t want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.” ― Malala Yousafzai
• “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” – George Washington Carver
• “Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.” – Brigham Young
• “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
• “Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.” – Eric Fromm
• “The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.” – George Eastman
• “Education is the transmission of civilization.” – Will Durant
• “The most important thing that schools can do is not to use technology in the curriculum more, but to use it more effectively.” – John G. Palfrey and ‎Urs Gasser
• “Education is the mother of leadership.” – Wendell Willkie
• “Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life." – Shakuntala Devi
• “Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.” – Plato
• “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer
• “Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.”― Vera Nazarian
• “Education should light a fire within us to improve us and help our world.” – Sarah Joseph
• “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
• "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.”― Plato
• “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant
• “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” — Henry Ford
• “Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.” – Ernest Dimnet
• “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” ― B.B. King
• “You learn something every day if you pay attention.” – Ray LeBlond
• “One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.” – Sophocles
• "Change is the end result of all true learning." – Leo Buscaglia
• "Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." – Malcolm X

Empowering through Knowledge: Memorable Quotes About Education

• "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." –  Benjamin Franklin
• "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." – Aristotle
• "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." – Albert Einstein
• "The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”– Dr. Seuss
• “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
• “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” ― C.S. Lewis
• “The learning process continues until the day you die.” – Kirk Douglas 
• “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ― W.B. Yeats
• “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey
• “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” – Kofi Annan
• “A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.” – Mark Twain
• “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” – Edward Everett 
• “They know enough who know how to learn.” – Henry Adams
• “Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.” – Abraham Lincoln
• “Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.” – Chinese proverb
• “Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.” – Anatole France
• “Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.” – Claude Bernard
• “All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” –Martin Fisher
• “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”― Aristotle
• “It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.” –Claude Bernard
• “Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.”— Chinese Proverb
• “Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.” –George Evans
• “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”— Carl Rogers
• “Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.” – Mark Twain

Unleashing Potential: Quotes About the Transformative Power of Education

• “You cannot open a book without learning something.” – Confucius
• “We learn from failure, not from success!”― Bram Stoker
• “The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.” – Jack Nicholson
• “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.”— Thomas Carruthers
• “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” – Socrates
• “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”— Oliver Wendell Holmes
• “Schools should be places to learn, not to teach.” – Don Tapscott
• “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”― Roy T. Bennett
• “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” – Voltaire
• “You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”― Douglas Adams
• “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” – Leonardo da Vinci
• “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” ― Isaac Asimov
• "Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”― Albert Einstein
• “Education is the art of making man ethical.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• “The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.” – Malala Yousafzai
• “The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.” – Confucius
• “Education is everything- education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.” – Ciara
• “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” – Diogenes of Sinope
• “Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” – Elin Nordegren
• “Everybody’s a teacher if you listen.”– Doris Roberts
• “When girls are educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous.” – Michelle Obama
• “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” – Gloria Steinem
• “The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.”― John Dewey
• “Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.”― Louis L’Amour
• “The schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for Government.” — Mahatma Gandhi

The Art of Learning: Quotes that Celebrate Education

• “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
• “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Andy McIntyre
• “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” – Epictetus
• “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” – Tom Bodett
• “If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.” – Ignacio Estrada
• “All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.” — Mahatma Gandhi
• “What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.” – Henry David Thoreau
• “What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” – Alfred Mercier
• “There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”– Mahatma Gandhi
• “I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” – Albert Einstein
• “The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” – Mary McLeod Bethune
• “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch
• “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain
• “Education is too important to be left solely to educators.” – Francis Keppel
• “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” – Albert Einstein
• “It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.” – Rene Descartes
• “Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.” – William H. Gray III
• “Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.” – Aldous Huxley
• “You teach best what you most need to learn.” – Richard Bach
• “In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.” — Barack Obama
• “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” ― Robert Frost
• “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” – Abigail Adams
• “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” ― Aristotle
• “It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.” – Agnes Repplierg
• “They cannot stop me. I will get my education if it is in the home, school, or any place.” – Malala Yousafzai

Bridging Dreams and Reality: Quotes About Education's Possibilities

• “I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.” – Steven Wright
• “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” ― Thomas Jefferson
• “Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.” – Dr. W. Edwards Deming
• “Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.” – John Holt
• “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” –  Og Mandino
• “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
• “I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.”– Ann Brashares
• “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” ― Walter Cronkite
• “To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.” ― Muriel Spark
• “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” ― Victor Hugo
• “Education is the ability to meet life’s situations.” – Dr. John G. Hibben
• “Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.” – John Hersey
• “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain
• “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
• “Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” – Marian Wright Edelman
• “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” – Leonardo da Vinci
• “It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.” ― Cormac McCarthy
• “The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth” ― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
• “With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.” ― Malala Yousafzai
• “If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.” – Brad Sherman
• “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
• “The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.” – Joseph Campbell
• “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead
• “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” – C. S. Lewis
• “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” – Lily Tomlin

Lighting the Path: Quotes That Illuminate the Importance of Education

• “Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
• “I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.” – Steve Irwin
• “I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” – Eartha Kitt
• “The Best way to predict your future is to create it.”— ABRAHAM LINCOLN
• “I am still learning.” —Michelangelo
• “Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
• “A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” —Helen Keller
• “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B.King
• “Try to learn something about everything and everything about.” —Thomas Huxley
• “Learning without thought is a labor lost, thought without learning is perilous.” – Confucius
• “I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”—Pablo Picasso
• “Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work.” —William Crawford
• “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”– Winston Churchill

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100 Knowledge Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective

By Maxime Lagacé

Maxime is the founder of WisdomQuotes. He has been collecting quotes since 2004. His goal? To help you develop a calm and peaceful mind. Learn more about him on his about page .

Here are 100 of the most inspiring knowledge quotes I could find. Hope you’ll find a new perspective on knowledge and wisdom through these beautiful words. You’ll discover quotes by Einstein, Lao Tzu, da Vinci, and more. Enjoy!

Know that you don’t know. That is superior. Lao Tzu

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. Bruce Lee

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. Frank Herbert

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all. Malcolm Forbes

Real knowledge is intrinsic and it’s built from the ground up. Naval Ravikant

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. Epictetus

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts

Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring. Small words are chatter. Zhuangzi

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. Albert Einstein

To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. Lao Tzu

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. Confucius

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. Laurence Sterne

Humility will teach you knowledge, arrogance will teach you ignorance. If you think you know it all, you have learned nothing. Thibaut ( @kpaxs )

The end of all knowledge should be service to others. Cesar Chavez

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. Margaret Fuller

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The Best Knowledge Quotes

Any fool can know. The point is to understand. Albert Einstein

The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more. Charlie Munger

The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself… The more you learn, the more you’ll earn. Warren Buffett

Knowledge is a skyscraper. You can take a shortcut with a fragile foundation of memorization, or build slowly upon a steel frame of understanding. Naval Ravikant

Wise people say less than they know. Fools say everything they know and many things they don’t. @TheStoicEmperor

When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man. Zen proverb

Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant. Charlie Munger

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways. Robert Greene

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. William Shakespeare

The learning and knowledge that we have is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. Plato

The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things. Plato

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. Martin Luther King Jr

If your goal is lasting insight, consuming news that will be irrelevant next week is a bad strategy. Michael

I believe we know close to nothing. If we embrace that ‘not knowing’ we’ll have a healthier experience going through life. Rick Rubin

I know just enough to know how little we know. Naval Ravikant

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. Rachel Carson

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw

Real knowledge breeds “body feel” and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity. Bruce Lee

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty. Will Durant

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. Albert Einstein

What Is Knowledge?

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. Jacob Bronowski

Knowledge is rooted in all things — the world is a library. Lakota proverb

Knowledge is useful when applied, but over-accumulated for its own sake is a burden. Naval Ravikant

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. Anton Chekhov

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Knowledge is power. Francis Bacon

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. Warren Buffett

I am a part of everything that I have read. Theodore Roosevelt

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better. Maya Angelou

The more you know the less you understand. Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching)

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. Leonardo da Vinci

The only thing that I know, is that I know nothing. René Descartes

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. Henry Ford

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. James Madison

There is no knowledge that is not power. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. Voltaire

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. Nicolaus Copernicus

Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality. Dalai Lama

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. Plato

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. Plato

If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. Mark Twain

Short Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom. Paulo Coelho

Wisdom is the daughter of experience. Leonardo da Vinci

Diversification is a hedge against a lack of knowledge. Naval Ravikant

Wisdom > knowledge > information > data. Shane Parrish

Knowledge, like milk, has an expiry date. Shane Parrish

The more you possess the more you are possessed. Thibaut

The more you know, the less you need to say. Jim Rohn

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly. Unknown

Knowledge has a beginning but no end. Geeta S. Iyengar

Time, as it grows old, teaches all things. Aeschylus

It’s not knowledge that will transform you, it’s understanding. Maxime Lagacé

Inspirational Knowledge Quotes

Take small bites. Before people realize it, you have accumulated an empire. Robert Greene

Better to understand a little than do misunderstand a lot. Lord Chesterfield

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Charlie Munger

Now we have the Internet, which is the greatest weapon of knowledge ever created, completely interconnected. Naval Ravikant

School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards – wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity – come from ignoring others and improving ourselves. Naval Ravikant

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James

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. Leo Buscaglia

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. Anais Nin

Your problem is not a lack of knowledge ; you already have more of it than 90% of people will ever have. The problem is a lack of implementation. Once you’ve acquired a certain amount of knowledge, adding more to it is less important than putting your current knowledge to work. @TheAncientSage

The value of knowledge depends on what else you know. David Perell

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith. Immanuel Kant

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you. Neil deGrasse Tyson

A great book can transmit years of wisdom in a few afternoons. Each sentence conveys meaning with precision and economy. A great book is a patient teacher and a deathless companion. A man with a good library has a thousand good mentors. @TheStoicEmperor

No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire. L. Frank Baum

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. Ralph W. Sockman

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realize the great life. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Funny Knowledge Quotes

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know. Mark Twain

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. Kurt Vonnegut

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time. Howard Nemerov

If you think that knowledge alone is power, remember: people still smoke and drink soda. Ed Latimore ( edlatimore.com )

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. Miles Kington

If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich. Warren Buffett

Knowledge if not digested does not give nutrition, only adds weight. Osho

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it. Persian proverb

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Do you have lots of knowledge? What’s your favorite knowledge quote? And remember: words can transform your life, if you find the right ones.

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13 Inspiring Educational Quotes for Students

Updated: February 1, 2024

Published: January 16, 2017

Throughout your educational journey, it’s likely that you’ll look for sources of motivation. Since you’ll be tasked with a lot and will have your fair share of responsibilities, these quotes by famous educators and other notable people are a great place to turn to.

Educational quotes and quotes related to education may offer the boost of energy you need to keep powering through when you need it most.

Education-Related Quotes

Now, it’s time to get to inspirational quotes. Have a look:

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin

There’s no doubt that the cost of education is on the rise. The financial concerns of earning your education should never stop you from doing so because, as Benjamin Franklin once said, this investment in yourself will pay you back with interest over your entire lifetime. Additionally, you can earn your education in a cost-effective way. Check out the University of the People’s degree programs that are all tuition-free. 

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X

While it’s safe to say that no one knows what will happen tomorrow, having an education under your belt will open the door to more opportunities. These job opportunities are also likely to pay more with more education, so what you do today in terms of education will surely prepare you for what’s yet to come.

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

The great thing about learning is that you never have to stop! There’s no limit as to the amount of knowledge you can obtain. So, rip a page from Gandhi’s book and keep on learning while you’re living.

“Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” —Elin Nordegren

If there’s one thing that’s certain in life is that everything is constantly changing. You may suffer losses when it comes to loved ones, finances, belongings, and the like. But, the thing that you can never lose is your education.

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” —Maimonides

Perhaps you’ve heard this important lesson from the philosopher Maimonides before. The main message here is that you can do something for someone and it will be of help at the time, but if you don’t teach them how to do it themselves, they will forever be dependent. That’s one of the most beautiful things about teaching and education– once you share knowledge or obtain knowledge, there is power and capability gained forever.

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.“ – Malcolm Forbes

No matter where you come from or how you see the world, one of the benefits of obtaining an education will be that it will open your mind to new perspectives. For example, at the University of the People, students from over 200 countries and territories attend our online institution. That means that peers get to communicate and learn about different cultures and places without even having to leave home.

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.“ – Albert Einstein

The late and great theoretical physicist Albert Einstein makes a strong statement here, which resembles the quote from Gandhi above. The opportunity to learn and the possibility to do so is something you can do at any point in your life. There’s no deadline to learning.

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows” – Sydney J. Harris

This poetic quote allows for a nice image to come to mind. The idea here is that instead of looking at the world as a reflection of yourself and your own perspective being bounced back, education clears up the space to see past oneself as if they were looking through a window.

“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself” – Chinese Proverb

No matter how good and dedicated teachers are, students need to be willing to learn. This Chinese proverb sums it up well – students need to take the first step forward in gaining knowledge.

“A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.“ – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

As you learn, you undoubtedly grow. So, once you’ve been educated on a topic, you never lose what you gain. In turn, your mind, imagination and understanding will expand.

 “Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” – Abigail Adams

In today’s modern age with technological advances, the opportunity to learn is seemingly everywhere. While you can pick up pieces of knowledge by chance and through experience, you ingest the most when you are dedicated and aware of learning. Luckily, you have options to earn degrees in-person, online, or in a hybrid approach.

 “You learn something every day if you pay attention.” – Ray LeBlond 

Similar to the above quote, you can learn anywhere and everywhere. But, you have to be aware to do so because otherwise, things will pass you by.

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Jeff Rich

While cost-effective ways to obtain education do exist, the cost of education can also be very expensive. As American lawyer and educator, Derek Bok pointed out in this quote, ignorance is certainly more expensive because it can lead to problems in life.

Closing Thoughts

These educational quotes represent a small sliver of the education-related quotes out there in the world. Hopefully, they’ve served to remind you of why education is so valuable and how it can prepare you for the best possible experiences in life. If you’re already on your educational journey, keep going!

If you’re looking to get started and expand your horizons, check out the kind of student experience you can expect if you enroll online at the University of the People.

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