60+ Inspirational Education Quotes to Inspire Learning and Lifelong Growth
Education is the cornerstone of progress and the key to unlocking human potential. It empowers individuals to think critically, make informed decisions, and pursue their dreams. Beyond academics, education fosters empathy, curiosity, and a deeper understanding of the world and our place in it. It bridges gaps, creates opportunities, and lays the foundation for equality and innovation. Through education, we not only transform ourselves but also contribute to a better, more enlightened society.
Including: Education, Learning.
- “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.”
- “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
- “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
- “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
- “While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
- “Learning never exhausts the mind.”
- “You cannot open a book without learning something.”
- “Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
- “In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.”
- “Education is the best provision for old age.”
- “Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”
- “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
- “The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.”
- “We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.”
- “Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.”
- “For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.”
- “No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”
- “Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.”
- “The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.”
- “Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”
- “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.”
- “I would fain grow old learning many things.”
- “If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”
- “Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experiences that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.”
- “Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.”
- “Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”
- “Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.”
- “Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”
- “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
- “Nature has always had more force than education.”
- “No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.”
- “No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.”
- “Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
- “A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”
- “A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
- “I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.”
- “People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.”
- “Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”
- “We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.”
- “Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.”
- “The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
- “The highest result of education is tolerance.”
- “Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.”
- “I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.”
- “I never let schooling interfere with my education.”
- “Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.”
- “Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
- “Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”
- “Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
- “Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.”
- “What I call my ‘self’ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.”
- “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
- “Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.”
- “Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”
- “Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.”
- “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
- “It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.”
- “The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”
- “Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”
- “The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.”
- “On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.”
- “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
- “Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.”
- “For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.”
- “Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.”
- “Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.”