Quotes about Education

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

Societies are preoccupied with just about everything other than making good people. For some, it is intelligence. Parents are often more concerned with their children's IQs than their children's characters. And many people confuse higher education with decency and moral insight.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge

The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into.

They are afraid of educated women. They are afraid of the power of knowledge.

A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don't know.

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.