75 Best Education Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing education quotes and sayings.
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Short Education Sayings
“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” —Diogenes
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” —Sydney J. Harris
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” —Will Durant
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” —Benjamin Franklin
“By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.” —Latin Proverb
“The education of women is the best way to save the environment.” —E. O. Wilson
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” —John Dewey
“Human beings are curious by nature.” —Aristotle
“Change is the end result of all true learning.” —Leo Buscaglia
“I can’t give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.” —L. Frank Baum
“Education is still important because it opens the mind and expands it.” —Unknown
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” —Socrates
“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.” —Mark Twain
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” —Aristotle
“He, who opens a school door, closes a prison.” —Victor Hugo
“Education is the movement from darkness to light.” —Allan Bloom
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” —Edward Everett
“A child miseducated is a child lost.” —John F. Kennedy
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” —Robert Frost
“Learning is never done without errors and defeat.” —Vladimir Lenin
“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” —Chinese Proverb
“What you learn is often determined by what you need to know.” —John Bingham
“All men by nature desire to know.” —Aristotle
“Education is not so important as people think.” —Elizabeth Bowen
“All real education is the architecture of the soul.” —William Bennett
“The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.” —Thomas Merton
“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” —Edmund Burke
“The highest result of education is tolerance.” —Helen Keller
“Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.” —Friedrich Von Schlegel
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” —Ernest Hemingway
“When you learn, teach. When you get, give.” —Maya Angelou
“Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.” —Lyndon Johnson
“The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.” —Nicola Sturgeon
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” —Socrates
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” —Isaac Asimov
Education Sayings
“Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” —Abigail Adams
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” —Henry B Adams
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.” —Joseph Addison
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” —Malcolm X
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” —Nelson Mandela
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.” —Joseph Addison
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” —G.K. Chesterton
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” —Aristotle
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” —Robert Frost
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” —Albert Einstein
“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.” —Solomon Ortiz
“It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.” —Agnes Repplierg
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” —Aristotle
“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?” —Erich Fromm
“Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.” —Meryl Streep
“Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” —Japanese Proverb
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.” —Plato
“You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.” —Conrad Hall
“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” —Malcolm Forbes
“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” —B.F. Skinner
“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” —George Washington Carver
“Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.” —Bertolt Brecht
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” —G.K. Chesterton
“I’ve learned, that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.” —Andy Rooney
“For education does not give only knowledge, but taste: it qualifies the feelings as well as the judgment.” —Joyce Carey
“A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.” —John Ciardi
“A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.” —Norman Cousins
“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.” —Euripides
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.” —Napoleon Hill
“I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.” —Bob Marley
“To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.” —James Russell Lowell
“Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.” —Louis Nizer
“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“The best gift an educator can give is to get someone to become self-reflective.” —Randy Pausch
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” —Leonardo da Vinci
“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.” —Horace Mann
“True teaching is one that not teaches knowledge but stimulates children to gain it.” —Jill Eggleton
“The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.” —John W. Gardner
“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.” —Rabbinical Saying
“The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.” —Wendell Phillips
Top Ten Education Sayings
Here you will find top ten education sayings selected by our team.
- “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” —Malcolm X
- “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” —Diogenes
- “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” —Nelson Mandela
- “The education of women is the best way to save the environment.” —E. O. Wilson
- “When you learn, teach. When you get, give.” —Maya Angelou
- “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” —Aristotle
- “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” —Benjamin Franklin
- “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” —G.K. Chesterton
- “The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” —Malcolm Forbes
- “The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.” —Wendell Phillips
