Education Quotes

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

- Aristotle

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

- William Butler Yeats

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

- Malcolm Forbes

"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."

- Anthony J. D’Angelo

"The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values."

- William S. Burroughs

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

- Aristotle

"Education is the movement from darkness to light."

- Allan Bloom

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

- B.B. King

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

- Confucius

"A good education is a foundation for a better future."

- Elizabeth Warren

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Plutarch

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."

- Carl Rogers

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

- Robert Frost

"A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read."

- Mark Twain

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."

- Brian Herbert

"Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."

- Peter Brougham

"Education is the foundation upon which we build our future."

- Christine Gregoire

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."

- Aristotle

"You are always a student. Never a master. You have to keep moving forward."

- Conrad Hall

"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth."

- John F. Kennedy

"Education is the cornerstone of liberty."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"A child without education is like a bird without wings."

- Tibetan Proverb

"Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."

- Abigail Adams

"Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life."

- Shakuntala Devi

"In learning, you will teach, and in teaching, you will learn."

- Phil Collins

"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."

- Chanakya

"Education is the difference between wishing you could help others and being able to help them."

- Unknown

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul."

- Joseph Addison

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

- Margaret Mead

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

- Helen Keller

"Education is not merely a means to employment. It is a pathway to understanding."

- Unknown

"Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference."

- Claire Fagin

"The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning, you go to school."

- T.D. Jakes