“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
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“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.”
“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”
“If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.”
“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.”
“Education is the best provision for old age.”
“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”
“Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.”
“The key to education is the experience of beauty.”
“It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.”
“Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.”
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
“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 know and what you don't.”
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.”
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.”
“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.”
“Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
“Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.”
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”