Why Education Matters / Education Quotes

“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.” – Confucius

“If a man does not study, he will have no knowledge. A man without knowledge is a fool.” --The Jitsugokyō

“Learning is an experience; everything else is just information.” --Albert Einstein

人学ばざれば智なし、智なき者は愚人なり --実語教

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

“The substance of learning is clearing off mental impurities and improving our actions.” --Toju Nakae

"Learning is the raising of character by the broadening of vision and the deepening of feeling.” ― Mayer Sulzberger

それ学問は心の汚れを清め、身の行いを良くするを以て本実とす --中江藤樹

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled” -- Plutarch

“Make efforts and study hard, and you will become a genius. A genius is a person who works 3, 4 or 5 times as hard as others.” --Hideyo Noguchi

“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.” ― James Madison

努力だ、勉強だ、それが天才だ。だれよりも三倍、四倍、五倍勉強する者、それが天才だ。--野口英世

“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”--Plato

“Heaven did not create men above men nor put men under men” --Yukichi Fukuzawa

“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

天は人の上に人を造らず人の下に人を造らずと云えり --福澤諭吉

"Education is not preparation for life; Education is life itself." -- John Dewey

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” ― Henry Ford

“Education is not received. It is achieved.” -- Albert Einstein

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know." -- Daniel J. Boorstin

“Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.” -- Claire Figan

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

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army” -- Edward Everett

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

“Only the educated are free.”-- Epictetus

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

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated” -- Oscar Wilde

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

"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one." -- Malcolm S. Forbes

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”-- Benjamin Franklin

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” -- Confucius

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

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

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

“There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.” -- John Adams

" Nunca consideres el estudio como una obligación, sino como una oportunidad para penetrar en el bello y maravilloso mundo del saber". -- Albert Einstein)

“学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆。” -- 孔子

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

“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.”-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”-- John Adams

“Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.”-- George Savile

“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”--John Locke

“三人行，必有我师焉。择其善者而从之，其不善者而改之。” -- 孔子

“When you know better you do better.” – Maya Angelou

“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”-- Phil Collins

“A child without education is like a bird without wings.”-- Tibetan proverb

“There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”-- John Adams

“Only the educated are free.”-- Epictetus

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

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

“We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.” -- Harry Edwards

“The secret in education lies in respecting the student.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Seek education from the cradle to the grave.” -- Arabic proverb

“A child without education is like a bird without wings.” -- Tibetan proverb

“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.” -- Nelson Mandela

“You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.” -- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." -Will Durant

“One's work may be finished some day, but one's education never.” –Alexander Dumas

“Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.” – Deborah Meier

“Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.” –W. Edwards Deming

“Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.” –Steve Perry

“There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.” –Ali bin Abu-Talib

“Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain.” –John F. Kennedy

“The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.” –William Deresiewicz

“When you teach, you will reap one hundred harvests.” –Kuan Chung

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.” --Benjamin Franklin

“Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.” –Lyndon B. Johnson

“Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of...” – Plato

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Derek Bok

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

“Knowledge is the things we have been taught and learned over time. Wisdom is the application of knowledge.” – Mike Lauinger

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

“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.” –Aristotle

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

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

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

“Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.” – Henry Steele Commager

“Even the wisest mind has something yet to learn.” – George Santayana

“A man without education is like a building without foundation.”

“Wisdom begins with wonder.” – Socrates

“Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.” –Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.” –Aristotle

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.” –Alan Moore

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” –Albert Einstein

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

“Education is more than a luxury; it is a responsibility society owes to itself.” – Robin Cook

“Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.” – George Savile

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

“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Life’s an open book and education helps you write success stories.” – Joyce A. Myers

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

“If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.” – John Dewey