Education Quotes

“Too much to know is to know nought but fame.”

William Shakespeare

“Knowing I loved my books, he furnish'd me from mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.”

William Shakespeare

“Me, poor man, my library was dukedom large enough.”

William Shakespeare

“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in every thing.”

William Shakespeare

“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.”

Francis Bacon

“Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.”

Francis Bacon

“Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.”

Samuel Johnson

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

Richard Steele

“The much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.”

Lord Chesterfield

“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”

Benjamin Franklin

“I cannot live without books.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”

Abigail Adams

“The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Meek young men grow up in libraries.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!”

Henry David Thoreau

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”

Henry David Thoreau

“Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts.”

Charles Dickens

“In the first place God made idiots. That was for practice. Then He made School Boards.”

Mark Twain

“That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.”

Thomas Henry Huxley

“Education has for its object the formation of character.”

Herbert Spencer

“No book is so bad that some good cannot be got out of it.”

Pliny the Elder

“I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my power.”

Alexander the Great

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.”

Alexander the Great

“One impulse from a vernal wood may teach you more of man, of moral evil and of good, than all the sages can.”

William Wordsworth

“There is no Frigate like a Book to take us Lands away.”

Emily Dickinson