“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
— Malcolm S. Forbes
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.”
— Conrad Hall
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
— Albert Einstein
“To teach is to learn twice.”
— Joseph Joubert
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”
— Sydney J. Harris
“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.”
— Vernon Howard
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
— Confucius
“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”
— Marian Wright Edelman
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
— Carl R. Rogers
“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”
— Vern Law
“One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.”
— Henry Ford
“Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not yet completely sure about the universe.”
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
— Plutarch
“Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.”
— Bob Dylan
“A little learning is a dangerous thing.”
— Alexander Pope
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
— Alfred Tennyson
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.”
— Jim Rohn
“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.”
— Daniel J. Boorstin
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”
— Tony Robbins
“Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.”
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
— John Locke
“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
— Thomas Paine
“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”
— Horace Mann
“I’m not a teacher, but an awakener.”
— Robert Frost
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”
— Margaret Fuller
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.”
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
— Winston Churchill
“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”
— Warren Buffett
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”
— Abigail Adams
“You teach best what you most need to learn.”
— Richard Bach
“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
— Sigmund Freud
“In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.”
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
“I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.”
— Fred Allen
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