Education Quotes

These 18 quotes on education come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. — Rabindranath Tagore
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Rabindranath Tagore
I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education'. — Malala Yousafzai
I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education'.
Malala Yousafzai
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. — Nelson Mandela
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul. — Walt Whitman
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul.
Walt Whitman
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. — Malcolm X
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
We learn not in school, but in life. — Seneca
We learn not in school, but in life.
Seneca
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. — Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. — Abraham Lincoln
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead. — Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
Aristotle
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. — Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. — Albert Einstein
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
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