Education Quotes on Learning & Knowledge – Page 5 | GloryQuotes

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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 A. Baldwin

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Doris Lessing

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

Lars von Trier

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

Albert Pike

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Wendell Phillips

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

John Ciardi

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

I think you get out of film school what you put into it. If you don't care about making movies, film school will do you no good.

Richard King

I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.

Ric Keller

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

Rita Mae Brown

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

Armstrong Williams

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.

William Jennings Bryan

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

William J. Clinton

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

William Godwin

Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.

Laura Bush

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

Edward Sapir

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Wendell Phillips

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

John W. Gardner

Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

Ric Keller

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

David Dinkins

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

Jon Postel

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

Leigh Steinberg

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

James A. Baldwin

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Chuck Palahniuk

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

Blanche Lincoln

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Kurt Vonnegut

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

Bob Taft

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

Andy Warhol

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

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

Nelson Mandela

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.

Minoru Yamasaki

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Plutarch

I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.

Al Sharpton

Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.

Paul Weyrich

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Edward Gibbon

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

Phyllis Schlafly

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

Richard Ernst

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

George Savile

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

Herbert Hoover

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi