Quotes of Education
One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. - Malala Yousafzai, UN Speech, 12 July 2013
Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest of the class. It would be in the best interests of all if he were removed from school immediately. - Albert Einstein's Teacher
It doesn't matter what he does, he will never amount to anything. - Albert Einstein's Teacher
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. - Albert Einstein
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. - Confucius
He who will not economize will have to agonize. - Confucius
Respect yourself and others will respect you. - Confucius
When anger rises, think of the consequences. - Confucius
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. - Alexander Graham Bell
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star. - Confucius
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin
Skill to do comes of doing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. - James Baldwin
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. - Diogenes Laertius
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. - William James
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche
What you cannot enforce, do not command. - Socrates
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. - Susan Ertz
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. - Patricia Neal
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. - Epictetus
There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them. - Tom Krause
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself. - Denis Waitley
Do not wait for extrordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. - Jean Paul Richter
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. - Alec Bourne
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. - John F. Kennedy
Never promise more than you can perform. - Publius Syrus
The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream. - Kemp
Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett
When in doubt, tell the truth. - Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education -- sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. - E. B. White
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Herman Cain
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. - Peter F. Drucker
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. - Anatole France
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. - George Burns
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. - Salvador Dali
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas Alva Edison
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Winston Churchill
It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney
While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD)
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. - George Santayana
For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much. - W. C. Sellar
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. - John Powell
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. - Helen Keller
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs. - Jack Lynch
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. - Jessamyn West
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced. - Swami Vivekananda
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