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| Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without EDUCATION. EDUCATION enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. | Albert Edward Wiggam | |
| A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence. | Brander Matthews | 1852-1929, American Writer |
| Upon books the collective EDUCATION of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. | Henry C. Rogers | |
| What poor EDUCATION I have received has been gained in the University of Life. | Horatio Bottomley | American Politician |
| There is no need to EDUCATION. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with EDUCATION. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. | Jiddu Krishnamurti | 1895-1986, Indian Theosophist |
| It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard EDUCATION and a Yale degree. | John F. Kennedy | 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA |
| Never let formal EDUCATION get in the way of your learning. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| One of the benefits of a college EDUCATION is to show the boy its little avail. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| When you don't have an EDUCATION, you've got to use your brains. | Source Unknown | |
| A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college EDUCATION. | Theodore Roosevelt | 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA |
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| A college EDUCATION should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself. | Thomas Ehrlich | |
| If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about EDUCATION but about war? -- not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? | Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist |
| 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the EDUCATION is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. | William Congreve | 1670-1729, British Dramatist |
| Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defence of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and EDUCATION¨ | Yvor Winters | 1900-1968, American Literary Critic |
| The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them. | Douglas Everett | American Hockey Player |
| Knowledge without EDUCATION is but armed injustice. | Horace | BC 65-8, Italian Poet |
| The growth of affluence, the growth of EDUCATION, has led to a shortage of morons. | Leonard Neal | |
| Natural ability without EDUCATION has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than EDUCATION without natural ability. | Marcus T. Cicero | c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician |
| I add this, that rational ability without EDUCATION has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than EDUCATION without natural ability. | Marcus T. Cicero | c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician |
| Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. | Joseph A. Schumpeter | 1883-1950, Austrian-American Economist |
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| What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it. | Nicholas Dewolf | American Businessman, Founder, Teradyne, Inc. |
| Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our EDUCATION, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist |
| Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting. | Stephen Bayley | 1951-, British Design Critic |
| The habit of saving is itself an EDUCATION. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind. | Thornton T. Munger | American Scientist |
| According to this conception, the sole function of EDUCATION was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's EDUCATION, must serve that end exclusively. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
| EDUCATION is the progressive realization of our ignorance. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
| It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
| It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal EDUCATION. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
| The most valuable of all EDUCATION is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
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| It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. | Alec Bourne | |
| EDUCATION forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| I wonder whether if I had an EDUCATION I should have been more or less a fool that I am. | Alice James | 1848-1892, American Diarist, Sister of Henry, William James |
| EDUCATION in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. | Allan Bloom | 1930-1992, American Educator, Author |
| The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration. | Allan Bloom | 1930-1992, American Educator, Author |
| EDUCATION is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| An EDUCATION isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. | Anatole France | 1844-1924, French Writer |
| Nine tenths of EDUCATION is encouragement. | Anatole France | 1844-1924, French Writer |
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| We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty. | Angelina Grimke | 1805-1879, American Abolitionist, Feminist |
| I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of EDUCATION. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. | Anne Sullivan | 1866-1936, American Educator of the Deaf, Blind |
| The roots of EDUCATION are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| EDUCATION is the best provision for old age. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| EDUCATION is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| 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 | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Wit is educated insolence. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
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