Education Knowledge Quotes

There's nothing more useless than a mind filled with someone else's thoughts. ~ Laurie Gray

So many businesses today have wind-up because of fear of failing. ~ Godwin Elendu Ph.D

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge. ~ Matt Blunt

But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligent and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn ... Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love ... Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. ~ Daniel Keyes

By degrees they spoke of education , and the book-learning that forms one part of it; and the result was that Ruth determined to get up early all throughout the bright summer mornings, to acquire the knowledge hereafter to be give to her child. Her mind was uncultivated, her reading scant; beyond the mere mechanical arts of education she knew nothing; but she had a refined taste, and excellent sense and judgment to separate the true from the false. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Sir Ken Robinson's 2008 talk on educational reform - entitled "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" - has now been viewed more than 4 million times. In it Robinson cites the fact that children's scores on standard tests of creativity decline as they grow older and advance through the educational system. He concludes that children start out as curious, creative individuals but are made duller by factory-style schools that spend too much time teaching children academic facts and not enough helping them express themselves. Sir Ken clearly cares greatly about the well-being of children, and he is a superb storyteller, but his arguments about creativity, though beguilingly made, are almost entirely baseless. ~ Ian Leslie

The true division of humanity is this: the luminous and the dark.
To diminish the number of the dark, to increase the number of the luminous, there is the aim.That is why we cry: education, knowledge! to learn to read is to kindle a fire; every syllable spelled sparkles.
But whoever say light does not necessarily say joy.
There is suffering in light; an excess burns. Flames is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius ~ Victor Hugo

Education is a relentless voyage of discovery. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Our knowledge is limited. However, reading augments our knowledge. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The moment men begin to care more for education than for religion they begin to care more for ambition than for education. It is no longer a world in which the souls of all are equal before heaven, but a world in which the mind of each is bent on achieving unequal advantage over the other. There begins to be a mere vanity in being educated whether it be self-educated or merely state-educated. Education ought to be a searchlight given to a man to explore everything, but very specially the things most distant from himself. Education tends to be a spotlight; which is centered entirely on himself. Some improvement may be made by turning equally vivid and perhaps vulgar spotlights upon a large number of other people as well. But the only final cure is to turn off the limelight and let him realize the stars. ~ G.K. Chesterton

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. ~ C.S. Lewis

During that year at Harvard learning with Carl Steinitz, I had the feeling that I was drinking knowledge out of a fire hose. I learned more in that year than I had learned in the previous ten years of my education. ~ Jack Dangermond

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture. ~ David Amram

Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves. ~ Alan Arkin

Ll subjects are forms of discourse and that, therefore, almost all education is a form of language education. Knowledge of a subject mostly means knowledge of the language of that subject. Biology, after all, is not plants and animals; it is a special language employed to speak about plants and animals. History is not events that once occurred; it is a language describing and interpreting events, according to rules established by historians. Astronomy is not planets and stars but a special way of talking about planets and stars, quite different from the language poets use to talk about them. ~ Neil Postman

I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know. ~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte

While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover their vocations and responsibilities, and not merely cram their minds with facts and technical knowledge; it should be the soil in which they can grow without fear, happily and integrally. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. ~ John F. Kennedy

I believe our education system as a whole has not integrated the histories of all people into our education system, just the Eurocentric view of itself, and the White-centered view of African Americans, and even this is slim to nonexistent. What I find is that most people don't know the fact they don't know, because of the complete lack of information. ~ Ronald Takaki

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life. ~ Mortimer J. Adler

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God. ~ John Calvin

I seek and search for the light of knowledge. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Much is known by reading, more is mastered by doing. ~ T.F. Hodge

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Work with whatever tool you may have at your disposal, and you shall find better tool as you go ahead. ~ Godwin Elendu Ph.D

Education is liberation, knowledge is power. ~ Henry Johnson Jr

Inherently, each one of us has the substance within to achieve whatever our goals and dreams define. What is missing from each of us is the training, education, knowledge and insight to utilize what we already have. ~ Mark Twain

Knowledge, understanding, and wisdom is naught to the man who is incapable of applying it. ~ Joshua Romqn

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life. ~ Derek Bok

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two. ~ Chuck Berry

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.' ~ Ben Carson

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things. ~ Jean Piaget

A fish in a bowl thinks to know it all, for it has never seen the ocean. ~ Daniel Andersson

You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth. ~ Wangari Maathai

Seek. Seek. Never stop seeking. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history. ~ Walter M. Miller Jr.

I never drank from the fountain of knowledge, I had mine on the rocks. ~ Tim Fargo

Knowledge is the name professors give to the confusion they create. ~ Marty Rubin

A walk with nature awakens the mind of creativity. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning. ~ Christine De Pizan

Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb. ~ Thomas More

Schools are a fountain of knowledge: some students come to drink , some to sip and others just to gargle. ~ Shiv Khera

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel. ~ Daniel Akaka

The quest for knowledge is passion to study. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Positive madness leads to new knowledge. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You must be a starter and a finisher, the slogan "press on" has solved a lot of problem. ~ Godwin Elendu Ph.D

Knowledge itself is power ~ Francis Bacon

Knowledge is worth nothing, until it is put to practice. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Literature is a sacred knowledge. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment. ~ Peter Ritchie Calder

learned that knowledge is power. If you want to control people's lives, limit their knowledge. That is why, throughout history, despots have burned books and exiled (and even killed) those with knowledge who threatened their power. Before the Civil War in America, it was against the law in many states to teach slaves to read and write. Knowledge is the most powerful force on earth. That is why the control of knowledge is essential to the control of power. The formula is: Information x Education = Knowledge Knowledge is power - and lack of knowledge is weakness. ~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

Education is the use of knowledge which brings about development and impact many lives ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge. ~ Tess Gerritsen

The desire for knowledge begins with searching and seeking. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading is the beginning of knowledge acquisition. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge ~ Benjamin Disraeli

You can't destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive. ~ Leigh Brackett

I suppose it was a dream that lasted really about fifty years. By the time universal education had begun to work properly, say 1925, and the time the first teachers started to hold back information, say 1975. So a fifty-year dream."
"I think what's happened is that because they themselves know less than their predecessors, innovators and leaders today have remade the world in their own image. Spellchecks. Search engines. They've remodeled the world so that ignorance is not really a disadvantage. And I should think that increasingly they'll carry on reshaping the world to accommodate a net loss of knowledge. ~ Sebastian Faulks

This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve, whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years in my life in study. Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion. I'd had more of books, but he had more of learning. ~ James Herriot

The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge? ~ Jim Elliot

For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside. ~ Robert Sommer

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer. ~ Bryant H. McGill

Gracious spirit kindled the fire to search for the sacred knowledge. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce. ~ Virginia Gildersleeve

The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. Not anything can be studied as a science, without our being in possession of the principles upon which it is founded; and as this is the case with Christian theology, it is therefore the study of nothing. ~ Thomas Paine

The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to destruction. But, by God's goodness, in my time light and dignity were returned to letters, and I see there such improvement that today I would have great difficulty being admitted to the most elementary classes
I, who in my time was reputed to be (and not wrongly) to be the most knowledgeable person of the century. ~ Francois Rabelais

Life is science. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets. ~ Maynard James Keenan

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

No matter how revolutionary people were, he said, they could not live without books. Without books, we would not understand the world; without books, we could not develop; without books, nature could not serve humanity. ~ Xinran

People are either scholars or learners, everyone else are mobs. ~ Imam Ali Bin Abi Taleb

Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them. ~ Estelle Morris

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ~ Brooks Atkinson

Begin to acquire knowledge. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Education is our path to change. Minds and hearts are brightened via learning. ~ Galit Breen

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. ~ Lord Chesterfield

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary. ~ Libba Bray

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century. ~ Mary Augusta Ward

When teachers participate in a literary experience with a professionally presented children's play, they are offering their students a text quite different from anything that they will experience within their classrooms. Within this literary experience, teachers join as equals with their students, and each, as audience members within the darkened space of the performance, create their own poems to hold within themselves or share with others. ~ James Hugh Comey

Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways. ~ Dalai Lama XIV

But when I roamed New York City, knowing so much and capable of speaking so nicely, and yet so lonely, and often hungry and cold, I learned the joke at the core of American self-improvement: knowledge was so much junk to be processed one way or another at great universities. The real treasure the great universities offered was a lifelong membership in a respected artificial extended family. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy. ~ Anne Sullivan

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. ~ Shakuntala Devi

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete. ~ Lafcadio Hearn

To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education. ~ Melanie Griffith

Not only does neoliberalism undermine both civic education and public values and confuse education with training, it also treats knowledge as a product, promoting a neoliberal logic that views schools as malls, students as consumers, and faculty as entrepreneurs. ~ Henry Giroux

True liberty comes from education, knowledge, and wisdom. ~ Debasish Mridha

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college. ~ Lillian Smith

In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing ... The teacher presents himself to his students as their necessary opposite; by considering their ignorance absolute, he justifies his own existence. ~ Paulo Freire

You can gain knowledge from school but you can't get motivation, knowledge & education can't get you anywhere without motivation. ~ Beta Metani'Marashi

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry. ~ Scott Turow

Education is the key to great opportunities. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Pedagogy is always about power, because it cannot be separated from how subjectives are formed, desires mobilized, how some experiences are legitimized and others are not, or how some knowledge is considered acceptable while other forms are excluded from the curriculum. ~ Henry A. Giroux

The most essential step in marketing your services is selecting an occupation you can throw yourself into wholeheartedly. ~ Godwin Elendu Ph.D

To teachers, education is just a duty, but to students, it's their right. ~ Amit Kalantri

I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. ~ John Updike

To sustain the value of education, students should be respected as much as the teachers. ~ Amit Kalantri