41 Wonderful Education Quotes that Extol the Value of Education

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
~ Samuel Johnson

• All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. 
  - Aristotle
  
  

• The roots of education are bitter but the fruits are sweet.
  - Aristotle
  
  
• Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
  - Aristotle
  
  

One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
~ Sophocles

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
~ Aristotle

• Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.
  - John Adams
  
  

• The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
  - John Lubbock
  
  
• The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
  - William Burroughs
  

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step in knowledge.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you'll never cease to grow.
~ Anthony D'Angelo

• Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
  - Malcolm S. Forbes
  
  
• Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
  - Francis Bacon
  
  

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
~ Confucius

It's not what you don't know that hurts you; it's what you think you know that isn't so.
~ Source unknown

• The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
  - John Powell
  
  
• Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.
  - William Butler Yeats
  
  

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

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
~ Robert Maynard Hutchins

There is no knowledge that is not power,
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
~ Anonymous

Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.
~ Panchatantra

Education is what survives when what has been learned has long been forgotten.
~ B. F. Skinner

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much are the three pillars of learning.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatize, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
~ William Arthur Ward

• A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
  - Khalil Gibran

• The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
  - Bishop Mandell Creighton

He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not, remains a fool forever.
~ Chinese proverb

If you would like to thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
~ Tryon Edwards

• The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
  - Mortimer Adler

• Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
  - Daniel J. Boorstin

• It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
  - Epictetus

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
~ Edward Everett

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
~ Robert Maynard Hutchins

• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
  - Robert Frost

• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
  - Aristotle

• We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
  - Ben Sweetland

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
~ William James

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
~ William James

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
~ Will Durant