Quotes about Education
...the exchange of students...should be vastly expanded...Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
- Margaret Mead
You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.
- Ravi Zacharias
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
- James Madison
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
- John F. Kennedy
The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
- Khalil Gibran
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
- Brigham Young
Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.
- David O. McKay
The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.
- Winston Churchill
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]
- Euripides