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- You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.
Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, Accepted, 2006
- It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Alec Bourne
- 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.
Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990), New Scientist, May 21, 1964
- The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
Claiborne Pell (1918 - )
- Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
Clive James
- The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.
Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
- The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Diogenes Laertius
- Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
- Only the educated are free.
Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses
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