Education Quotes - Page 32

• Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

  Scott Hayden

  Inspirational, Teacher, Two

  64 Copy quote

• You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Reading, Learning, Ideas

  4 Copy quote

• What we do not understand we do not possess.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Learning, Knowledge

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.294, Courier Corporation

  8 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  509 Copy quote

• I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.

  Gustave Courbet

  Art, Inspiration, Past

  12 Copy quote

• He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

  Inspirational, Wise, Knowledge

  25 Copy quote

• He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

  John Powell

  Inspiring, Learning, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Inspirational, Teacher, Integrity

  12 Copy quote

• Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

  Philo

  Learning, Curiosity, Unexplained

  52 Copy quote

• Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind

  Louis Pasteur

  Inspiration, Impact, Mind

  16 Copy quote

• To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Business, Honesty

  83 Copy quote

• We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Money, Believe, Investment

  31 Copy quote

• In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Mistake, School, Intelligence

  11 Copy quote

• 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.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  468 Copy quote

• Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Teacher, Atheist, Book

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.102, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  69 Copy quote

  Show source

• Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

  B. F. Skinner

  Children, Giving, Shapes

  297 Copy quote

• An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

  Charles Stanley

  Prayer, Men, High School Graduation

  Charles Stanley (2002). “How to Listen to God”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc

  181 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it has been copied, I believe, by nearly every college and academy in the United States. That is, the holding the students all to one prescribed course of reading, and disallowing exclusive application to those branches only which are to qualify them for the particular vocations to which they are destined. We shall, on the contrary, allow them uncontrolled choice in the lectures they shall choose to attend, and require elementary qualification only, and sufficient age.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Reading, Believe, Knowledge

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.294, Rowman & Littlefield

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Inspirational, Teacher, Retirement

  7 Copy quote

• Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Educational, Important, Dare

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  Years, Best Year, Examination

  "The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics". Book edited by Timothy Ferris and Clifton Fadiman, 1991.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  School, Democratic Ideals, Trying

  6 Copy quote

• Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

  Mark Twain

  Schooling, Acquire, Interference

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.26, St. Martin's Press

  90 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

  Harold Taylor

  Important, Precision, Educate

  4 Copy quote

• Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

  Alexander Pope

  Birthday, Graduation, Learning

  Epistles to Several Persons "To Lord Cobham" l. 101 (1734)

  15 Copy quote

  Show source