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A. A. Milne  One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.  
A. Bartlett Giamatti  Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive   [read rest of quote]
Abigail Adams  Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.  
Abraham Lincoln  I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.  
Abraham Lincoln  Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only  [read rest of quote]
Albert Einstein  "Imagination is more important than knowledge.  
Aristotle  Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.  
Ashely Montagu  The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.  
Audre Lorde  Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.  
B.F. Skinner  Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten  
Benjamin Disraeli  To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.  
Bertrand Russell  Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.  
Brian Patten  Death is the only grammatically correct full stop?  
C. M. Cox  Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circ  [read rest of quote]
Cicero  Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without  [read rest of quote]
Clarence Thomas  Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.  
Clark Coleman  The two most evangelical groups in the world are atheists and vegetarians, especially the least know  [read rest of quote]
Daniel J. Boorstin  The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.  
Frank Herbert  The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.  
Frank Zappa  If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.  
G. M. Trevelyan  Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth rea  [read rest of quote]
GI Joe  Knowing is half the battle.  
Groucho Marx  I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a   [read rest of quote]
H. L. Mencken  We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.  
Henry Adams  A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.  
Henry Ford  The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.  
Irwin Edman  Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.  
Jimmy Swaggart  Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest.  
John Locke  Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon thems  [read rest of quote]
John Lubbock  A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to   [read rest of quote]
John Maynard Keynes  Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.  
Joseph Addison  Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienat  [read rest of quote]
Josephine Tey  Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.  
Kahlil Gibran  I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unki  [read rest of quote]
Kathleen Norris  Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.  
Laurence J. Peter  Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.  
Lord Chesterfield  The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.  
Marilyn Ferguson  Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, becau  [read rest of quote]
Mark Twain  Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.  
Mary Pettibone Poole  To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.  
Nancy Astor  Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which lin  [read rest of quote]
Ralph Waldo Emerson  The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all goo  [read rest of quote]
Robert Frost  Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.  
Robert Quillen  Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.  
Russell Green  The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents  [read rest of quote]
S. I. Hayakawa  In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will  [read rest of quote]
S. Leonard Rubenstein  There is no procedure for learning to write. What you must do, is learn to think.  
Shelley  Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.  
Sir Francis Bacon  Knowledge is power  
T. H. White  The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it   [read rest of quote]
Theodore Roosevelt  A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university educatio  [read rest of quote]
Thomas Edison  The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the hum  [read rest of quote]
Thomas Edison  A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.  
Tom Robbins  If little else, the brain is an educational toy.  
Unknown  Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading i  [read rest of quote]
Unknown  Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.  
Voltaire  It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not  [read rest of quote]
Will Durant  Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.  
Wilson Mizner  I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.  
Woody Allen  His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.