Favorite Quotes: Education

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
– Derek Bok

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.
– Charlotte Bronté

A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.
– W. H. Auden

To teach is to learn twice over.
– Joseph Joubert

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision
of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community—these are the most vital things education must try to produce.
– Virginia Gildersleeve

Only the educated are free.
– Epictetus

What was once thought can never be unthought.
– Friedrich Durrenmatt

Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.
– Justice William O. Douglas

The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing—to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
– John Keats

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
– John W. Gardner

Education is the best provision for old age.
– Aristotle

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
– Goethe

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
– Oscar Wilde

Let a hundred flowers bloom. Let a hundred schools of thought contend.
– Mao Tse-Tung

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
– Socrates

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
– Socrates

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
– Kingman Brewster

The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the one who can’t read them.
– Mark Twain

Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
– Anna Freud

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
– Albert Einstein

Whoever would know himself, let him open a book.
– Jean Paulhan