Education is one of the most powerful things to live with happiness and prosperity. It empowers minds that will be able to conceive good thoughts and ideas. Powerful education quotes will show you how learning gives you an understanding of the world and offers you an opportunity to use that knowledge wisely.
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Top 10 Education Quotes
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin
A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference. – Arie Pencovici

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. – Francis Bacon
I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message. – Steve Irwin
Change is the end result of all true learning. – Leo Buscaglia

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning. – Bruce Lee
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 passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. – Malcolm X
Inspirational Education Quotes
Don’t let schooling interfere with your education. – Mark Twain
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. – Aristotle
A generation of auto-didacts, educated by the Internet and leveraged by technology, will eventually starve the industrial-education system. – Naval Ravikant
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. – Albert Einstein

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. – Helen Keller
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity. – Cesar Chavez
The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss
The most important day of a person’s education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day. – Harry Wong

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. – Margaret Mead
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Mahatma Gandhi
Teaching kids to count is fine but teaching them what counts is best. – Bob Talber
Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. – Jim Henson

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
There are some lessons you can never find in a classroom, hence you need to learn from every person and every situation that you encounter. – Gugu Mona
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. – Malcolm Forbes
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. – G.K. Chesterton

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
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
Children learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardour and diligence.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. – Kofi Annan
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Nelson Mandela
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. – Arthur Ashe

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. – Mark Twain
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. – Edward Everett
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

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
Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians. – Christina Hoff
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. – John Hersey

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. – Chinese proverb
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. – Zig Ziglar
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. – G.K. Chesterton

Nine-tenths of education is encouragement. – Anatole France
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. – Confucius
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. – Claude Bernard

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
Education… is painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning, by praise, but above all – – by example. – John Ruskin

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 anyplace. – Malala Yousafzai

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. – Steven Wright
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
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. – Thomas Jefferson

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. – John Ruskin
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
No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete. – G.K. Chesterton

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better. – Wendell Phillips
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. – Walt Disney
People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. – Socrates

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know. – William R. Inge
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. – Chanakya
The giving of love is an education in itself. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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
Lasting novels don’t come from literature departments. Successful businesses don’t come from business schools. Scientific revolutions don’t come from research universities. Get your education, then get moving. Find the loners tinkering at the edge. – Naval Ravikant
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. – John Dewey

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. – Cicero
You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun. – Josephine Baker
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce. – Naval Ravikant
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say we did it ourselves. – Lao Tzu
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. – Emma Goldman

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? – Erich Fromm
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. – C. S. Lewis
Only the autodidacts are free. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. – Brigham Young
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. – John Locke
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. – Francis Bacon
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t. – Bill Nye
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. – Robert G. Ingersoll

The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. – Alexandra K. Trenfor
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
One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I’ve spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I’ve always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us. – Condoleezza Rice
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. – Victor Hugo
But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated. – Kathy Ireland
Education is the ability to meet life’s situations. – Dr. John G. Hibben
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.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. – Theodore Roosevelt
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. – Thomas Szasz
Powerful Quotes About Education
If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. – Nora Roberts
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
What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul. – Joseph Addison
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. – Og Mandino
Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action. – Jim Rohn
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Education cost money, but then so does ignorance. – Claus Moser
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. – Aristotle
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen. – Lee Iacocca
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. – Peter Brougham
The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness. It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow. – Naval Ravikant
No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education. – Bobby Scott
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. – Confucius
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. – Ernest Dimnet
Every child deserves a champion: an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be. – Rita Pierson
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
Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework. — Amy Lee
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. – Albert Einstein
Every artist was at first an amateur. – Ralph W. Emerson
The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them. – Leo Buscaglia
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 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
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. – Jane Austen
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
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
By seeking and blundering we learn. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t. – Pete Seeger
Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference. – Claire Fagin
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. – Henry David Thoreau
When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling. – John Taylor Gatto
Only the educated are free. – Epictetus
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
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. – John W. Gardner
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
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
I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time. – Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. – George Santayana
I don’t want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban. – Malala Yousafzai
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. – Mark Twain
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
Education Quotes for New Normal
- Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one learned in school.
- 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.
- The more you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
- Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
- A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.
- Either you run the day or the day runs you.
- Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- He who opens a school door closed a prison.
- If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
- The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change.
- Education is the passport for the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.