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“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.â€? – T.H. Huxley   

“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.â€? – Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.â€? – Admiral Hyman G. Rickover

“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. It’s knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it’s knowing how to use the information you get.â€? – William Feather

“I believe that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience, that the process and the goal of education are the same thing. I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.â€? – John Dewey, My Pedagogic Creed

“Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.â€? – Abigail Adams

“Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.â€? – Chuang-Tzu

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.â€? – John Powell

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.â€? – William Butler Yeats

“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.â€? – Marcel Proust

“Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.â€? – Robert Anthony

“Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.â€? – Ambrose Bierce

“I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.â€? – Franklin Pierce Adams

“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.â€? – Mark Twain

“It is an axiom in political science that unless a people are educated and enlightened it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty or the capacity for self-government.â€? – Texas Declaration of Independence

“A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.â€? – Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.â€? – Albert Einstein

“All things are difficult before they are easy.â€? – Thomas Fuller

“No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.â€? – Emma Goldman

“Don’t worry that children never listen to you. Worry that they are always watching you.â€? – Robert Fulghum

“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.â€? – Eartha Kitt

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B. B. King

 

“A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.” – Lord John Russell 

 

“Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes  

 

“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.” – Thomas Szasz 

 

“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  

 

“The principle goal of education is to create men [sic] who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done — men [sic] who are creative, inventive and discoverers.â€? – Jean Piaget

 

“The moment a man begins to talk about technique that’s proof that he is fresh out of ideas.â€? – Raymond Chandler

 

“Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.â€? – Ezra Pound 

 

“Education is not preparation for life, education is life itself.” – John Dewey 

 

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn – and change.” – Carl Rogers 

 

“Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.” – Bhagavad Gita 

 

“Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 

 

“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” – Peter F. Drucker 

 

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.” – Albert Einstein 

 

“To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.” – Confucius

 

“I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.” – Lord Byron

 

“It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.” – James Madison

 

“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust