100+ Education Quotes & Sayings

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As Nelson Mandela said : "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." We're sharing our collection on Education quotes from the most influential people.

Being an educated person is a truly great thing. These quotes on education remind us of the importance of expanding our horizons, and cultivating our minds. The most common theme in

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

Confucius

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

Murray N. Rothbard

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Henry David Thoreau

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

Charlotte Brontë

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

Leo Tolstoy

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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Mark Twain

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

John Adams

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

Greg Mortenson

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Brigham Young

She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

Terry Pratchett

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Henry Ford

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

J.D. Salinger

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create theirown.

Nikos Kazantzakis

The only things you learn are the things you tame

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.

Malala Yousafzai

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

Malala Yousafzai

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Dylan Thomas

Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

Malala Yousafzai

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

Malala Yousafzai

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Mark Twain

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.

Richard Feynman

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

Terry Pratchett

He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

Malala Yousafzai

By 20, you should be smart. By 30, you should be strong. By 40, you should be rich. By 50, you should be wise. But if you are smart, strong, rich and wise, you don't need any age limits.

Santosh Kalwar

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

Malala Yousafzai

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Noam Chomsky

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

Frank Herbert

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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

Victor Hugo

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Leonardo da Vinci

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

Aristotle

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

Aristotle

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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