Education Quotes

America is the best half-educated country in the world.
Nicholas M. Butler

Best, Country, America

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead

Read, Call, Liberal

It is always in season for old men to learn.
Aeschylus

Men, Old, Learn

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan

Able, Worth, Read

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
Abu Bakr

Bad, Person, Learned

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
Abigail Van Buren

Learning, Ignorance, True

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
Harvey S. Firestone

Others, Succeed, Develop

Responsibility educates.
Wendell Phillips

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
Annie Dillard

Live, Remember, Learn

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound

Men, Real, Knowing

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.
Allen Klein

Said, Learn, Visual

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Women, Great, Men

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.
Al Green

Learned, Church, Stuff

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.
Angela Merkel

Learn, High, Skills

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

Deal, Educated, Gut

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
Cornelius Vanderbilt

Time, Learned, Else

Man is what he reads.
Joseph Brodsky

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
Tammy Faye Bakker

God, Yourself, Educate

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest Renan

Life, Familiar, Truths

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.
Leon Spinks

Fool, Educated, Dumb

Every educated person is a future enemy.
Martin Bormann

Future, Enemy, Person

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
Joseph Brodsky

Everything, Read

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
Muriel Spark

Soul, Miss, Call

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.
Jane Byrne

Country, Around, Respected

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
Felix Bloch

Time, Before, Able

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