Education Quotes

“The power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already.”

Plato

“A good education is that which gives to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.”

Plato

“Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them.”

Aristotle

“Education is a controlling grace to the young, consolation to the old, wealth to the poor, and ornament to the rich.”

Diogenes

“Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.”

Plutarch

“Give me a boy whom praise stimulates, whom success delights, and whom failure makes weep.”

Quintilian

“Whom, then, do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances which they encounter day by day.”

Isocrates

“I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.”

Confucius

“It would be better to be without the Book of History than to give entire credit to it.”

Mencius

“Beware the man of one book.”

Thomas Aquinas

“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”

Desiderius Erasmus

“The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.”

Desiderius Erasmus

“As good almost kill a man as kill a good book.”

John Milton

“For him was lever have at his bed's head twenty books, clad in black or red.”

Geoffrey Chaucer

“And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.”

Oliver Goldsmith

“He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading.”

William Shakespeare

“Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.”

William Shakespeare

“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.”

John Locke

“Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood.”

Friedrich Froebel

“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.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Sapere aude! Have courage to use your own understanding!”

Immanuel Kant

“Let him be taught to examine and thoroughly sift everything he reads.”

Michel de Montaigne

“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.”

James Madison

“If we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface.”

Daniel Webster