Top 40 Education Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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2. “Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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3. “You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.”

— Conrad Hall

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4. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

— Albert Einstein

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5. “To teach is to learn twice.”

— Joseph Joubert

6. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”

— Sydney J. Harris

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7. “Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.”

— Vernon Howard

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8. “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”

— Confucius

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9. “Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”

— Marian Wright Edelman

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

— Carl R. Rogers

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11. “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”

— Vern Law

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12. “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

13. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

— Plutarch

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14. “A little learning is a dangerous thing.”

— Alexander Pope

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15. “Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not yet completely sure about the universe.”

— Albert Einstein

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16. “Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.”

— Bob Dylan

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17. “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.”

— Albert Einstein

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18. “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

— Alfred Tennyson

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19. “Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”

— Albert Einstein

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20. “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

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21. “I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

— Pablo Picasso

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22. “Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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23. “Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.”

— Jim Rohn

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24. “Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”

— Tony Robbins

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25. “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.”

— Confucius

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26. “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”

— Thomas Paine

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27. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”

— Albert Einstein

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28. “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

— John Locke

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29. “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”

— Margaret Fuller

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30. “A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”

— Horace Mann

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31. “I’m not a teacher, but an awakener.”

— Robert Frost

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32. “The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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33. “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”

— Winston Churchill

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34. “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”

— Abigail Adams

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35. “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”

— Warren Buffett

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36. “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”

— Sigmund Freud

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37. “You teach best what you most need to learn.”

— Richard Bach

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38. “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.”

— Warren Buffett

39. “Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

— Confucius

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40. “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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