Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. Francis Bacon
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning. Bruce Lee
A dull mind gets bored easily. A curious mind expands forever. Maxime Lagacé
Play is the highest form of research. Albert Einstein (Based on this page, this quote is probably not from Einstein)
A generation of auto-didacts, educated by the Internet and leveraged by technology, will eventually starve the industrial-education system. Naval Ravikant
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A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. Helen Keller
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. Margaret Mead
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. Bob Talber
Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. Jim Henson
A room without books is like a body without a soul. Cicero
The person who asks questions is more helpful than the person who offers advice. James Clear
The highest result of education is tolerance. Helen Keller
Only the autodidacts are free. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
They know enough who know how to learn. Henry Adams
See also: knowledge quotes, learning quotes, Einstein quotes
The Best Education Quotes
The more you make it easy for your kids, the more you remove the struggle necessary for learning. Maxime Lagacé
A mind is a terrible thing to waste. United Negro College Fund Click to tweet
Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. Chinese proverb
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. Walt Disney
The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Roosevelt
Lasting novels don’t come from literature departments. Successful businesses don’t come from business schools. Scientific revolutions don’t come from research universities. Get your education, then get moving. Find the loners tinkering at the edge. Naval Ravikant
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. Chinese proverb
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. John Dewey Click to tweet
People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. Socrates
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Cicero Click to tweet
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce. Naval Ravikant
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. William Haley
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. Emma Goldman
Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. Brigham Young
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. John Locke
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t. Bill Nye
Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action. Jim Rohn
The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. Alexandra K. Trenfor
Part 2. Education Quotes That Are…
The Most Famous Education Quotes (Oscar Wilde, Victor Hugo, Einstein, etc.)
The learned man knows that he is ignorant. Victor Hugo
I am still learning. Michelangelo Click to tweet
Learning never exhausts the mind. Leonardo da Vinci
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. Albert Einstein
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain Click to tweet
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. Augustine of Hippo
Failure is success if we learn from it. Malcolm Forbes
You can never be overdressed or overeducated. Oscar Wilde
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. James Dewar
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. B. B. King
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Short Education Quotes
One-liners, short education quotes, sayings, thoughts and captions for your bio, social status, self-talk, motto, mantra, signs, posters, wallpapers, backgrounds.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France
To teach is to learn twice. Joseph Joubert
Responsibility educates. Wendell Phillips
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Andy McIntyre
The world exists for the education of each man. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is a poor teacher. Robert Kiyosaki
There is no education like adversity. Benjamin Disraeli
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. Chinese proverb
There is no failure. Only feedback. Robert Allen
When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou Click to tweet
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Inspirational Education Quotes
If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. Ludwig Wittgenstein
If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. Nora Roberts
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. Eleanor Roosevelt
The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness. It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow. Naval Ravikant
Education is supposed to juice your curiosity, not diminish or sate it. Walter Isaacson
Every person with a smartphone and a pair of headphones has access to the kind of education that was once reserved for the sons of aristocracy. The Stoic Emperor
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. Confucius
Every child deserves a champion: an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be. Rita Pierson
They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. Malala Yousafzai
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. Aristotle
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen. Lee Iacocca Click to tweet
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. William James
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. John D. Rockefeller
See also: positive quotes
Funny And Surprising Education Quotes
You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day. Jay Mohr
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. Franklin P. Jones
Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don’t have the top for. Jerry Seinfeld
Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime. Red Skelton
The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn’t stop until you get to school. Milton Berle
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. Mark Twain
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. Mark Twain
When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble. Mark Twain
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. Steven Wright
The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging. Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students. Robin Williams Click to tweet
Teachers are those who help us in resolving problems which, without them, we wouldn’t have. Unknown
Marriage can wait, education cannot. Khaled Hosseini
Education Proverbs For Value Packed Wisdom
When the student is ready, the master appears. Buddhist proverb
If a seed of a lettuce will not grow, we do not blame the lettuce. Instead, the fault lies with us for not having nourished the seed properly. Buddhist proverb
A single conversation with a wise man is better than 10 years of study. Chinese proverb
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese proverb
Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand. Chinese proverb
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. Chinese proverb
Wise men may not be learned; learned men may not be wise. Chinese proverb
A stumble may prevent a fall. English proverb
Despise school and remain a fool. German proverb
All things good to know are difficult to learn. Greek proverb
An apprentice near a temple will recite the scriptures untaught. Japanese proverb
Fall down seven times, stand up eight. Japanese proverb
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. Japanese proverb
By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand. Latin proverb Click to tweet
Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. Zen proverb
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Part 3. Quotes By…
Education Quotes By Presidents (Obama, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Churchill, etc.)
All I have learned, I learned from books. Abraham Lincoln
I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln
And by the way, our teachers are underpaid. Barack Obama
You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you. Barack Obama
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible. Barack Obama
We want to educate people, we want to listen to folks, we want to hear good ideas from all sources. Barack Obama
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. Barack Obama
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things. Barack Obama
If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress. Barack Obama
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled. Barack Obama
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. Franklin D. Roosevelt
It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. Harry S Truman Click to tweet
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first. Harry S. Truman
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation. John F. Kennedy
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. John F. Kennedy
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. John F. Kennedy
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain. John F. Kennedy
Believe you can and you’re halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt Click to tweet
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. Thomas Jefferson
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. Thomas Jefferson
My education was interrupted only by my schooling. Winston Churchill
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
If you’re going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill
Education Quotes By Greeks (Aristotle, Diogenes, Euripides, Pythagoras, etc.)
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship. Aeschylus
The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil. Antisthenes
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education. Antisthenes
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes
The wise learn many things from their enemies. Aristophanes Click to tweet
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. Aristotle
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. Aristotle
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. Diogenes
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate. Democritus
Some wisdom you must learn from one who’s wise. Euripides
Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves. Euripides
Much learning does not teach understanding. Heraclitus
Even a fool learns something once it hits him. Homer
A learned man has always riches in himself. Phaedrus
All learning has an emotional base. Plato
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. Plato
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. Plato Click to tweet
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 the genius of each. Plato
Wisdom thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten. Pythagoras
Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men. Pythagoras
Education Quotes By Romans (Caesar, Seneca, Cicero)
Experience is the teacher of all things. Julius Caesar
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. Julius Caesar Click to tweet
Only the educated are free. Epictetus
To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete. Epictetus
As long as you live, keep learning how to live. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You learn to know a pilot in a storm. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. Marcus Tullius Cicero
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Part 4. Conclusion
All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. Martin H. Fischer
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. Eartha Kitt Click to tweet
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Table Of Contents
Part 1
Top 15 Images
Best Education Quotes
Part 2
Education Quotes That ARE
Famous
Short
Inspirational
Funny
Proverbs
Part 3
Education Quotes BY
Presidents
Greeks
Romans
Part 4
Conclusion
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Awesome quotes. May I copy some of them to my facebook profile?
Hi Roman!
Sure no problem, you can ahead and copy the ones you need.
Best,
Maxime
Education not only teaches what is in the books, it helps in evolving a person into a much wiser and better human being.
Great Post!
Thanks for posting!
Yes, that’s real education: educating the heart also.
Thanks,
Maxime
The more educated our kids are, the greater life they’ll have. If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.
Thank you.
I love that quote and mindset.
Thanks for sharing with us,
Maxime
Hi Maxime, It is said that education is one thing that remains for the longest period of time. As a teacher I believe the saying: “My goal is to translate response into results. Some teachers teach for others to learn, that’s not me. Some teachers teach for others to accomplish, that is me.”
Great post!
Thanks for posting!
That’s a beautiful quote Krishnendu, thanks for posting it.
Another thoughtful quote I like is this one by James Clear: The person who asks questions is more helpful than the person who offers advice.
Regards,
Maxime
I really love this! I just graduated and I’m still doubting if I should pursue my Master’s degree. My favorite quote is: Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way. Noam Chomsky.
For some people, school is for them.
For others, like autodidacts, it’s not.
It depends on your preferences and if you feel you’re learning.
Life, traveling, learning new things by yourself and starting a business are great ways to educate yourself too.
Cheers,
Maxime
Thanks for sharing this wonderful educational quotes collection.
I love this quote, “Play is the highest form of research.” Albert Einstein
Hi Tia,
thanks for commenting on Wisdom Quotes!
There are a lot of beautiful and inspiring quotes by Albert Einstein.
This one is not an exception.
Thanks,
Maxime
Very inspirational education quotes. This one is my favorite one from your collection by J. K. Rowling: “I think you’re working and learning until you die.”
We must love learning because life is all about it.
Thanks for sharing with us,
Maxime
I wish you had a search engine for the site. I’d spotted a wonderful quote by Nora Roberts that I’d have loved to have referenced just now and couldn’t find it. sigh
There is one here https://wisdomquotes.com/search/
The quote by Nora Roberts is perhaps this one:
If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. Nora Roberts
The more educated our kids are, the greater life they’ll have.
Thank you. I see and printed it out.
Yes, there’s no end to wisdom and knowledge.
Happy you liked it.
Thanks,
Maxime
Good Morning and thank you for the beautiful quotes, my favourite one is the one which says : The key to success is not through achievement but through enthusiasm., keep going thank you.
I’ll keep going!
Thank you for your message,
Maxime
These are apt, and can be of immense use to any body.
Commendable.
Thanks for your comment, Kofoworola.
Glad your liked them.
Regards,
Maxime
Love it
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
Beautiful and soul inspiring quotes.
Happy to hear that, Adekanmi.
Thanks for your comments,
Maxime