The following are my favourite quotes on education which I gathered from different books, places including internet. I like them because they convey the purpose and significance of education. Hope you like them.
• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -Will Durant
• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -William Butler Yeats
• The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war – Written on the board outside Military Contonment in Ranikhet
• Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character for it will become your destiny. -Frank Outlaw
• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. -Abraham Lincoln
• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -Alvin Toffler
• Nine tenths of education is encouragement -Anatole France
• A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. -George Santayana
• The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. -Gloria Steinem
• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams
• Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. -John Dewey
• Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Lord Brougham
• Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you don't consider your students to be human beings. -Lou Ann Walker
• Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. -Maria Montessori
• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. -Nelson Mandela
• Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. -Rabbinical saying
• Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. -Robert Green Ingersoll
• Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. -Roger Lewin
• Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach. -Rosabeth Moss Kantor
• These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. -Vernon Cooper
• A child miseducated is a child lost. -John F. Kennedy
• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher illustrates. The great teacher inspires. -William Arthur Ward
• It must be the aim of education to teach the citizen that he must first of all rule himself. -Winthrop A. Aldrich
• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. -Edward M. Forster
• An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. -Source Unknown
• I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. -Thomas Alva Edison
• Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. – Jimi Hendrix
• It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one’s doubts. - G.B.Burgin
• There is no shortcut to anywhere worth going -Thomas Edison
• A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on -John F Kennedy
• Anger is one letter away from danger -Eleanor Roosevelt
• I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -Confucius
• The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it – Moilere
• We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are – The Talmud
• Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun – Mary Lou Cook
• No failures but low aim is criminal. -James Russell Lowell
• When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. -Lao-Tzu
• A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. -Anonymous
• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -Mahatma Gandhi
• Where speech will not succeed, It is better to be silent. -Guru Granth Sahib
• I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. -Bill Cosby
• To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. -William Londen
• The impossible is often the untried. -Jim Goodwin
• He who binds himself to a joy
Doth the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity’s sunrise. -William Blake
• I am realistic. I expect miracles. -Wayne Dyer
• Fearless, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more and all good things will be yours. -Swedish Proverb
• There is no greatness where there is no simplicity. -Leo Tolstoy
• After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box. -Italian Proverb
• While I can run, I’ll run. While I can walk, I’ll walk. When I can only crawl, I’ll crawl. But I’ll always be moving forward. -Cavett Robert
• I’m great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. -Thomas Jefferson
• A life spent making mistakes in not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. -George Bernard Shaw
• You do not drown by falling in the water, you drown by staying there. –Lindsay
• Son, always tell the truth. Then you will never have to remember what you said the last time. -Sam Rayburn
• If a person is constantly engaged in good actions then after sometime it becomes his habit and no amount of allurements and temptations can make him shun the virtuous path. He develops a strong character and firm belief in his convictions. -Sama Veda
• Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts.
This is the secret of success. -Swami Sivananda
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