Famous Education Quotes



Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Benjamin Franklin

There is no education like adversity.

Benjamin Disraeli

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

John Locke

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Thomas Jefferson

The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank.

Charles Darwin

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

Wendell Phillips

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Mark Twain

Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.

Mark Twain

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

William James

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.

Theodore Roosevelt

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Benjamin Disraeli

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

Emma Goldman

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

John Ruskin

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

Daniel Webster

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Mark Twain

Traveling is an education that goes beyond textbooks, teaching us empathy, adaptability, and open-mindedness.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Virginia Woolf

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

John Maynard Keynes

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