best quotations about
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Quotations
 | If we are to use women for the same things as the men, we must also teach them the same things. — Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher 73 likes |
 | Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 17 likes |
 | Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 17 likes |
 | People think of education as something they can finish. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 17 likes |
 | The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 12 likes |
 | Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 11 likes |
| Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 11 likes |
| I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 10 likes |
 | Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 10 likes |
| Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery; it's the sincerest form of learning. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 9 likes |
| The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 9 likes |
 | Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 8 likes |
 | Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. — Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister 8 likes |
 | The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 8 likes |
 | It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general. — Ferdinand Foch, 1851-1929, French field marshal 8 likes |
 | The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. — Ernest Renan, 1823-1892, French philosopher & historian 7 likes |
 | A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 6 likes |
 | Education is what most people receive, many pass on, and few have. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 6 likes |
 | There’s a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist 6 likes |
 | The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 5 likes |
 | Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 5 likes |
 | The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 5 likes |
 | Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself. — Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794, English historian 5 likes |
| We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 4 likes |
 | Love affairs are the real only education in life. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 4 likes |
| A learned man is an idler who kills time by study. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 4 likes |
 | We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. — Timothy Leary, 1920-1996, American psychologist 4 likes |
 | Genius without education is like silver in the mine. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 4 likes |
 | The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 4 likes |
 | He who opens a school door, closes a prison. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 4 likes |
 | If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 4 likes |
 | In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 4 likes |
| That which hurts, also instructs. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 3 likes |
 | I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 3 likes |
| For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 3 likes |
 | Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. — Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, American businessman (ending comment in the Stanford Commencement in 2005) 3 likes |
| You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 3 likes |
 | In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 3 likes |
| This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 3 likes |
| Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 3 likes |
| A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man. — Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister 3 likes |
| The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. — Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister 3 likes |
 | Don't waste time learning the “tricks of the trade.” Instead, learn the trade. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 3 likes |
| Education is the transmission of civilization. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 3 likes |
 | Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician 3 likes |
| The wisest mind has something yet to learn. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 3 likes |
 | It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 3 likes |
 | Those who trust us educate us. — George Eliot, 1819-1880, English writer 3 likes |
 | We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. — Montesquieu, 1689-1755, French thinker 3 likes |
 | In my life I have found two things of priceless worth: learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 3 likes |
 | We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. — Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, American writer, Nobel 1954 2 likes |
 | Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
 | Throughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word “school” - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning “leisure.” — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 2 likes |
| A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 2 likes |
 | Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. — Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1973, American President [1963-1969] 2 likes |
 | I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 2 likes |
 | People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 2 likes |
 | Grateful are those who still have something to ask. — Pitigrilli (Dino Segre), 1893-1975, Italian writer 2 likes |
 | Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. — Bill Gates, 1955-, American businessman 2 likes |
 | Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. — Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of FORD 2 likes |
| It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
| Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be! — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 2 likes |
 | Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last. |
 | Know or listen to those who know. |
 | What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. |
 | The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth. |
 | Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. |
 | Too much of what is called “education” is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. |
 | I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die. |
| Poor is the pupil that does not surpass his master. |
 | Man cannot do anything brave in the world unless he submits his life to a Master superior to him. |
 | In this country, where we are all so tragically self-taught… |
 | To teach is to learn twice. |
| He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. |
| Everything can be learned, even virtue. |
 | You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims |
 | Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end. |
| The possession of anything begins in the mind. |
| Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own. |
 | A child’s education should begin at least 100 years before he was born. |
 | If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were. |
| Experience teaches only the teachable. |
| The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. |
| First Shakespeare sonnets seem meaningless; first Bach fugues, a bore; first differential equations, sheer torture. But training changes the nature of our spiritual experiences. In due course, contact with an obscurely beautiful poem, an elaborate piece of counterpoint or of mathematical reasoning, causes us to feel direct intuitions of beauty and significance. |
 | Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it. |
 | If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don’t worry about it, that’s the way we learn. |
 | The most learned are often the most narrow-minded men. |
 | It’s not by amusing oneself that one learns. |
| An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind. |
| You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. |
 | Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on. |
 | Read, read, read. Read everything —trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. |
 | Whatever your position, reach out to those who know more than you do, and have been around longer than you have. Find those people. Listen carefully. And learn. |
 | Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. |
| Education is a system of imposed ignorance. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist |
| Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry? — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist |
 | Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | The greatest service that we can render to a being: to teach him very early to know how to use life. |
 | One must always have in mind one simple fact: there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist |
| People are the common denominator of progress. So, paucis verbis, no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist |
 | It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. |
 | How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. |
 | Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy. |
 | Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. |
 | The learning we received only tended to obscure our vision. From the day we went to school we learned nothing; on the contrary, we were made obtuse, we were wrapped in a fog of words and abstractions. |
 | I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man. |
 | The truly successful teacher is the one you will never need again. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. |
 | If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die. — Stephen King, 1947-, American author of horror & fantasy fiction |
 | Lessons are learned, not taught. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet. |
 | Every adult needs a child to teach; it’s the way adults learn. |
 | No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life. |
 | I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the ‘Mona Lisa’ with a two-inch brush. |
| Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. |
| Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets. |
| A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. |
| Anytime you learn, you gain. |
Latin Quotes
 | What harms, often teaches. Quod nocet, saepe docet. 153 likes |
 | One should learn even from one's enemies. Fas est ab hoste doceri. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 36 likes |
| What hurts often instructs. Quae nocent, saepe docent. 25 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. — Fred Allen, 1894-1956, American comedian 2 likes |
 | People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong. |
| By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it. |
| I've learned so much from my failures that I'm thinking of having some more. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
Stupid Quotes
 | Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children. — George W. Bush, 1946-, American President 3 likes |
Ancient Greek
| Better be a late learner than an ignorant. Κρείττον οψιμαθή είναι ή αμαθή. — Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher (explaining why he was learning to play a musical instrument just before his execution) 24 likes |
 | The most necessary lesson is to unlearn all the wrong things. Μαθημάτων αναγκαιότατον τα κακά απομαθείν. — Antisthenes, 445-360 BC, Ancient Greek Cynic philosopher 16 likes |
 | We are indebted to our parents for living, but to our teachers for living well. Στους γονείς οφείλομεν το ζην, στους δε διδασκάλους το ευ ζην. — Alexander the Great, 356-323 BC, King of Macedon 16 likes |
 | For the foolish, not reason but misfortune is the teacher. Νηπίοισιν ου λόγος, αλλά ξυμφορή γίνεται διδάσκαλος. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 12 likes |
 | As I grow older, I constantly learn more. Γηράσκω δ’ αεί πολλά διδασκόμενος. — Solon, 630-560 BC, Ancient Greek lawmaker & philosopher 11 likes |
| More men become good through practice than by nature. Πλείονες εξ ασκήσεως αγαθοί γίνονται ή από φύσεως. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 10 likes |
 | Learning by suffering. Πάθει μάθος. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Agamemnon 10 likes |
 | Practice is everything. Μελέτη το παν. — Periander of Corinth, 668-584 BC, tyrant of Corinth 10 likes |
 | Three things support the perfection of a man: character, learning and practice. Εις τελειότητα του ανθρώπου τρία δει συνδράμειν: φύσιν, μάθησιν και άσκησιν. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 9 likes |
 | Marry a virgin, so that you can teach her the right manners. Παρθενικήν δε γαμείν, ως κ’ ήθεα κεδνά διδάξης. — Hesiod, 7th cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet ‐ Works and Days -699 7 likes |
 | The root of education is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Της παιδείας την μεν ρίζαν είναι πικράν τον δε καρπόν γλυκύν. — Isokrates, 436-338 BC, Ancient Greek rhetorician 7 likes |
| Homer has educated Greece. Όμηρος την Ελλάδα επεπαιδεύκει. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 7 likes |
 | Traveling is the best education. Το αποδημείν εί αρίστη παιδεία. 7 likes |
| If you are fond of learning, you will soon be full of learning. Εάν ης φιλομαθής, έσει και πολυμαθής. — Isokrates, 436-338 BC, Ancient Greek rhetorician 6 likes |
 | If you do not hit the clay, you cannot make tile. Αν μη πηλόν τύψης, κέραμος ου γίνεται. — Archytas, 428-347 BC, Ancient philosopher & statesman 5 likes |
| Education needs these three: natural endowment, study, practice. Τριών δει παιδεία: φύσεως, μαθήσεως, ασκήσεως. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 5 likes |
 | To think, to see, to understand, to show the arse, to trick, to suspect the worst, to question everything. Νοείν, οράν, ξυνιέναι, στρέφειν έδραν, τεχνάζειν, κάχ’ υποτοπείσθαι, περινοείν άπαντα. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Frogs (what Euripides taught to Athenians, according to Aristophanes) 5 likes |
| For those who prosper education is an ornament, for the unfortunate is a refuge. Παιδεία ευτυχούσι μεν εστί κόσμος, ατυχούσι δε καταφύγιον. — Isokrates, 436-338 BC, Ancient Greek rhetorician 5 likes |
| Education is an ornament for the fortunate and a refuge for the unfortunate. Η παιδεία ευτυχούσι μεν εστι κόσμος, ατυχούσι δε καταφύγιον. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 5 likes |
Proverbs
 | You can't teach an old dog new tricks. 5 likes |
 | Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. 3 likes |
| Practice makes perfect. 3 likes |
