Quotes on Knowledge Education

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

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

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn

I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.