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Education is one of the most powerful aspects of life.

• Learning allows us to make sense of the world around us, the world inside of us, and where we fit within the world.
• Education helps us get exposure to new ideas and concepts that we can use to appreciate and improve the world around us and the world within us.
• When we improve our education and continue to learn, we can foster new connections, increase our marketable skills, and understand people better.

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Education matters

The world around us is everything external.

The world within us is everything internal, like our mind, our body, and our emotions.

Education is the tool that breaks down all barriers.

Education is part of the foundation of all progress and growth, both as an individual and as a society.

All things are possible because anything can be learned.

With that said, here are some powerful education quotes to help you appreciate the power of learning and gaining knowledge.

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Short education quotes to get you thinking

1. Change is the end result of all true learning. – Leo Buscaglia

2. Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. – Malcolm X

3. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. –  Benjamin Franklin

4. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. – Aristotle

5. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. – Albert Einstein

6. The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”– Dr. Seuss

7. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

8. “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” ― C.S. Lewis

9. “The learning process continues until the day you die.” – Kirk Douglas 

10. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ― W.B. Yeats

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Education quotes to remind of its power

11. “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

12. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey

13. “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” – Kofi Annan

14. “A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.” – Mark Twain

15. “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” – Edward Everett 

16. “They know enough who know how to learn.” – Henry Adams

17. “Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.” – Abraham Lincoln

18. “Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.” – Chinese proverb

19. “Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.” – Anatole France

20. “Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.” – Claude Bernard

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Education quotes to inspire a love of learning

21. “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” ― Robert Frost

22. “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” – Abigail Adams

23. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” ― Aristotle

24. “It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.” – Agnes Repplierg

25. “They cannot stop me. I will get my education if it is in the home, school, or any place.” – Malala Yousafzai

26. “I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.” – Steven Wright

27. “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” ― Thomas Jefferson

28. “Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.” – Dr. W. Edwards Deming

29. “Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.” – John Holt

30. “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” –  Og Mandino

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31. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

32. “I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.”– Ann Brashares

33. “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” ― Walter Cronkite

34. “To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.” ― Muriel Spark

35. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” ― Victor Hugo

36. “Education is the ability to meet life’s situations.” – Dr. John G. Hibben

37. “Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.” – John Hersey

38. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain

39. “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

40. “Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” – Marian Wright Edelman

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41. “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” – Bill Nye

42. “You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.” – Conrad Hall

43. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris

44. “Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” – Ernest Dimnet

45. “Every artist was at first an amateur.” – Ralph W. Emerson

46. “Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.” ― Mark Twain

47. “All men by nature desire to know.” – Aristotle

48. “Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life.“ – W. E. B. Du Bois

49. “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” – Alexander the Great

50. “Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning.” ― Anton Chekhov

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51. “Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward.” – George Weah

52. “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” – Chanakya

53. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”― William Butler Yeats

54. “A good education is a foundation for a better future.” – Elizabeth Warren

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55. “Education is a once in a lifetime opportunity to open children’s hearts and minds to the unbelievable wonder of the universe.”– Sir Anthony Seldon

56. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ― Jim Rohn

57. “The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” ― Michel Legrand

58. “By seeking and blundering we learn.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

59. “School is the path, not the point.” – Will Richardson

60. “Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.” – Robin Williams

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61. “When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.” ― John Taylor Gatto

62. “Only the educated are free.” ― Epictetus
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63. “The real key to learning something quickly is to take a deliberate, intelligent approach to your learning.”– Lindsay Kolowich

64. “Do not confine your children to your own learning for they were born in another time.” – Hebrew Proverb

65. “I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time.” ― Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

66. “I don’t want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.” ― Malala Yousafzai

67. “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” – Leonardo da Vinci

68. “It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.” ― Cormac McCarthy

69. “The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth” ― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

70. “With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.” ― Malala Yousafzai

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71. “All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” –Martin Fisher

72. “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”― Aristotle

73. “It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.” –Claude Bernard

74. “Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.”— Chinese Proverb

75. “Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.” –George Evans

76. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”— Carl Rogers

77. “Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.” – Mark Twain

78. “You cannot open a book without learning something.” – Confucius

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79. “We learn from failure, not from success!”― Bram Stoker

80. “The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.” – Jack Nicholson

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81. “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.”— Thomas Carruthers

82. “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” – Socrates

83. “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”— Oliver Wendell Holmes

84. “Schools should be places to learn, not to teach.” – Don Tapscott

85. “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”― Roy T. Bennett

86. “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” – Voltaire

87. “You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”― Douglas Adams

88. “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” – Leonardo da Vinci

89. “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” ― Isaac Asimov

90. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”― Albert Einstein

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91. “Education is the art of making man ethical.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

92. “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” – George Washington Carver

93. “Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.” – Brigham Young

94. “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm S. Forbes

95. “Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.” – Eric Fromm

96. “The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.” –
George Eastman

97. “Education is the transmission of civilization.” – Will Durant

98. “The most important thing that schools can do is not to use technology in the curriculum more, but to use it more effectively.” – John G. Palfrey and ‎Urs Gasser

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99. “Education is the mother of leadership.” – Wendell Willkie

100. “Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. – Shakuntala Devi

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101. “Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.” – Plato

102. “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer

103. “Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.”― Vera Nazarian

104. “Education should light a fire within us to improve us and help our world.” – Sarah Joseph

105. “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

106. “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.”― Plato

107. “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant

108. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” — Henry Ford

109. “Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.” – Ernest Dimnet

110. “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” ― B.B. King

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111. “You learn something every day if you pay attention.” – Ray LeBlond

112. “One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.” – Sophocles

113. “All things good to know are difficult to learn.” – Greek proverb

114. “All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.”― David Hawkins

115. “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” – Confucius

116. “By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.” – Mahatma Gandhi

117. “Education is learning what you didn’t know you didn’t know.” – George Boas

118. “Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.” – John Adams

119. “Intelligence and education that hasn’t been tempered by human affection isn’t worth a damn.”― Daniel Keyes

120. “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” – William Burroughs

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121. “The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.” – Malala Yousafzai

122. “The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.” – Confucius

123. “Education is everything- education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.” – Ciara

124. “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” – Diogenes of Sinope
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125. “Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” – Elin Nordegren

126. “Everybody’s a teacher if you listen.”– Doris Roberts

127. “When girls are educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous.” – Michelle Obama

128. “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” – Gloria Steinem

129. “The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.”― John Dewey

130. “Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.”― Louis L’Amour

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131. “Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”– Abigail Adams

132. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor

133. “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Andy McIntyre

134. “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” – Epictetus

135. “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” – Tom Bodett

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136. “If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.” – Ignacio Estrada

137. “Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” – Daniel J. Boorstin

138. “What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.” – Henry David Thoreau

139. “What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” – Alfred Mercier

140. “There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”– Mahatma Gandhi

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141. “I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” – Albert Einstein

142. “The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” – Mary McLeod Bethune

143. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch

144. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain

145. “Education is too important to be left solely to educators.” – Francis Keppel

146. “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” – Albert Einstein

147. “It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.” –
Rene Descartes

148. “Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.” – William H. Gray III

149. “Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.” – Aldous Huxley

150. “You teach best what you most need to learn.” – Richard Bach

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151. “The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes

152. “If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.” – Brad Sherman

153. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” –
Confucius

154. “The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.” – Joseph Campbell

155. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead

156. “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” – C. S. Lewis

157. “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” – Lily Tomlin

158. “Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

159. “I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.” – Steve Irwin

160. “I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” – Eartha Kitt

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161. “The Best way to predict your future is to create it.”— ABRAHAM LINCOLN

162. “I am still learning.” —Michelangelo

163. “Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo Da Vinci

164. “A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” —Helen Keller

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165. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B.King

166. “Try to learn something about everything and everything about.” —Thomas Huxley

167. “Learning without thought is a labor lost, thought without learning is perilous.” – Confucius

168. “I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”—Pablo Picasso

169. “Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work.” —William Crawford

170. “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”– Winston Churchill

Education quotes to inspire everyday learning

171. “Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.” – Claus Moser

172. “Life is an open book test. Learning how to learn is your most valuable skill in the online world.” —Marc Cuban

173. “When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.”― William Glasser

174. “Take what you learn and make a difference with it.” —Tony Robbins

175. “Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.” – Euripides

176. “Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.” —Vernon Howard

177. “All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing and not moving toward excellence.” – Denis Waitley

178. “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” –Stephen Hawking
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179. “Don’t just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.” –George Carlin

180. “You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.”– Marvin Minsky

181. “Despise school and remain a fool.” – German proverb

182. “The learned man knows that he is ignorant.” – Victor Hugo

183. “I’ve learned… that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.” –
Andy Rooney

184. “We don’t stop going to school when we graduate.” – Carol Burnett

185. “You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.” – Henry Ford

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186. “We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” – Peter Drucker

187. “I am not a teacher, but an awakened.” – Robert Frost

188. “In the end, we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

189. “As long as you live, keep learning how to live.” – Seneca

190. “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” – Richard Feynman

191. “Men learn while they teach.” – Lucius A. Seneca

192. “That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.” – Doris Lessing

193. “It’s what we think we know that keeps us from learning.”― Claude Bernard

194. “The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.” – B.B. King

195. “When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, “As much as the living are to the dead.” – Diogenes Laertius

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196. “Education without application is just entertainment.”— Tim Sanders

197. “No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”— Voltaire

198. “A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”
— Mark Twain

199. “You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.” –Lyndon B. Johnson

200. “The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it again on something solid.”— G. K. Chesterton

201. “A little learning is a dangerous thing.” –Alexander Pope

202. “My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.”― Mary Shelley

203. “Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.” –John Dewey

204. “Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.”— W.B. Yeats

205. “Wisdom is learning what to overlook.” – William James

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206. “You’ll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.” – Julia Child

207. “It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.” — Claude Bernard

208. “Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you’ll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.”  – Albert Einstein

209. “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” ―John Wooden

210. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” – Richard Branson

211. “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” — Haruki Murakami

212. “All of life is a constant education.”― Eleanor Roosevelt

213. “The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”  — Mortimer Adler

214. “Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.”  — Brian Tracy

215. “Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” — William Arthur Ward

Education quotes that will inspire you to never stop learning

216. “Education is all a matter of building bridges.“ – Ralph Ellison

217. “It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.” – Epictetus

218. “A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.“ – George Santayana

219. “Anyone who isn’t embarrassed by who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.” – Alain de Botton

220. “What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul.“ – Joseph Addison

221. “It doesn`t hurt to get more education.”― Donald Trump

222. “What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.” —Chuck Grassley

223. “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” – Auguste Rodin

224. “Education is the vaccine of violence.” —Edward James Olmos

225. “Explain what you learned to someone else. Teaching forces learning.” – Naval Ravikant

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226. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller

227. “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”—Malcolm X

228. “The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing.” –Albert Einstein

229. “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.”—Malala Yousafzai

230. “Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.”― Confucius

231. “You cannot dream of becoming something you do not know about. You have to learn to dream big. Education exposes you to what the world has to offer, to the possibilities open to you.”—Sonia Sotomayor

232. “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”― Albert Einstein

233. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.”—Dr. Seuss

234. “Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.”—Nora Ephron

235. “We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.” — Peter De Vries

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236. “People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices.”― Gary L. Francione

237. “When you educate one person you can change a life, when you educate many you can change the world.”- Shai Reshef

238. “If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” – Chinese Proverb

239. “Learning allows for more wisdom and knowledge. Additional knowledge about any situation increases the strength of an opinion.” – Faye Horton

240. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein

241. “Don’t live in your own world. It is best to learn what others have achieved and this will also give you the psyche to get there.” – Dennis Jansen

242. “Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” – Chinese Proverb

243. “Anytime you learn, you gain.” – Bob Ross

244. “The highest result of education is tolerance.” – Hellen Keller

245. Learning is finding out what you already know.” – Richard Bach

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246. “Man is what he reads.” — Joseph Brodsky

247. “Education is the movement from darkness to light.” — Allan Bloom

248. “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” — Albert Einstein

249. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle

250. “To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” — Theodore Roosevelt

251. “In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” — Mark Twain

252. “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” — Maimonides

253. “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” — Abraham Lincoln

254. “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” — Oscar Wilde

255. “My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. ” — Maya Angelou

Education quotes to encourage you to never stop learning

256. “I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I’m often picking up classic books that most people read years ago.” — David Grann

257. “Education around entrepreneurship should start early, at secondary level, and be very robust by college level.” — Stephen A. Schwarzman

258. “Education is the antidote to poverty.” — Arvind Kejriwal

259. “Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.” — Joyce Meyer

260. “Education is possibility set in motion.” — Jill Biden

261. “Education is the best provision for old age.” — Aristotle

262. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin

263. “We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.” — Michelle Obama

264. “He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

265. “A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.” — Will Rogers

Education quotes that will change your way of thinking

266. “A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.” – Horace Mann

267. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R. Martin

268. “Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.” – Ed Markey

269. “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” ― Mark Twain

270. “Education can never stop! The more we read, the more we learn. The more we learn, the fuller life seems.” – L.M Montgomery

271. “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” ― Charles W. Eliot

272. “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” ― Groucho Marx

273. “The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.” ― Stanley Fish

274. “Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.” ― Gustave Flaubert

275. “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” ― Oscar Wilde

Insightful education quotes

276. “The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.”― George Santayana

277. “Learn about yourself then teach others to learn about their true self. Let them see the wonders of the world in their true colors.”― The Inner Light

278. “School exams are memory tests, in the real world no one is going to stop you from referring to a book to solve a problem.”― Amit Kalantri

279. “You may no longer be in school, but you must never stop learning. We need to be as smart as the white ghosts.”― Stacey Lee

280. “To sustain the value of education, students should be respected as much as the teachers.”― Amit Kalantri

281. “Education should not be reading about the past rather it should be about addressing the present.”― Rajesh Walecha

282. “To delight in literature is to desire to learn.”― Lailah Gifty Akita

283. “Education makes you humble, it doesn’t make you proud.”― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

284. “Education is the resistance to everything that is bad today.”― Jonas Mekas

285. “The basic task of education is the care and feeding of the imagination.”― Katherine Paterson

Quotes about education and success

286. “Aim for success, not perfection.” – David M. Burns

287. “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi

288. “Success is a poor teacher.” – Robert Kiyosaki

289. “The key to success is to develop a winning edge.” – Brian Tracy

290. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson

291. “The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” – Ayn Rand

292. “Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.” – Arnold H. Glasgow

293. “Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.” – Elbert Hubbard

294. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

295. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie

Quotes on education by famous personalities

296. “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” ― Brigham Young

297. “One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try.” – Sophocles

298. “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” ― Virginia Woolf

299. “Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.” – Alfred North Whitehead

300. “Reading is the key that unlocks the door of creativity.” – Agatha Christie

301. “I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” – Socrates

302. “The question is not how will you work if you lose your job; the question is how will you find one if you don’t have an education?” – Tony Bennet

303. “Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating.” – C.B. Neblette

304. “Learning is never done without errors and defeat.” – Vladimir Lenin

305. “To teach is to learn twice.” – Joseph Joubert

More education quotes from Nelson Mandela

306. “From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.” — Nelson Mandela

307. “No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.” — Nelson Mandela

308. “Education is the great engine to personal development.” — Nelson Mandela

309. “Let’s recommit to work towards our common goal: a nation where all of us are winners, all of us have shelter, food, and education.” — Nelson Mandela

310. “No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.” — Nelson Mandela

311. “The power of education extends beyond the development of skills we need for economic success. It can contribute to nation-building and reconciliation.”— Nelson Mandela

312. “Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities.”— Nelson Mandela

313. “Young people must take it upon themselves to ensure that they receive the highest education possible so that they can represent us well in future as future leaders.”— Nelson Mandela

314. “It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.” — Nelson Mandela

315. “We all know that education, more than anything else, improves your chances of building better lives.” — Nelson Mandela

Important Quotes About Education To Remind Us Of Its Value

316. “The most important day of a person’s education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.” ― Harry Wong

317. “Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later” ― Dana Stewart Scott

318. “Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.” ― Oprah Winfrey

319. “The road to freedom –here and everywhere on earth-– begins in the classroom.” ― Hubert Humphrey

320. “We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” ― Lloyd Alexander

321. “Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.” ― Francis Bacon

322. “Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti

323. “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” ― Dorothy Parker

324. “Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.”― Pete Seeger

325. “The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.” ― Bill Beattie

Education quotes for kids

326. “No one is perfect, that’s why pencils have erasers.” – Wolfgang Riebe

327. “To educate girls is to reduce poverty.” – Kofi Annan

328. “Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.” – Mary Harris Jones

329. “Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.”– William Arthur Ward

330. “You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.” – Barack Obama

331. “Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing what you can do.” – John Wooden

332. “Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.” – Claire Fagan

333. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino

334. “There is no failure. Only feedback.” – Robert Allen

335. “Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.” – James Dewar

Quotes About Education To Fuel Your Need To Learn

336. “Education is the greatest gift of life, it should never stop.” — Tony Clark

337. “Education is something we have to keep pursuing day after day.” — Premier Brian Gallant

338. “We are all learning all the time and should remain hungry students.” — Mark Homer

339. “The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.” — John Ruskin

340. “What do you now do with all of this education? I’m here to tell you today, don’t worry. Don’t worry about it. Relax. Take a breath.” — Oprah Winfrey

341. “Education is an organized program of learning. School is a community of learners.” — Ken Robinson

342. “From an educational perspective, any information that our students can use to think closer to the learning intention is a desirable. Everything else is a distraction.” — Peps Mccrea

343. “A broadly educated mind, drawing from all sources, will help you better understand how the world around us works and why things happen the way they do.” — Gary Hoover

344. “Every individual should have the right to compete on an equal footing, with equal education and the basic resources required for the market.” — George P. Fletcher

345. “Education is an art the practice of which must be brought to perfection in the course of many generations.” — Immanuel Kant

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Education is at the center of everything that’s good in our world today.

Without education, we would not have advances in education, computers, mathematics, psychology, engineering and any other fields.

It is important that we keep learning.

Education is one of the most important things we can do today to secure our futures.

Hopefully, these quotes have shown why we should all pursue education.

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