education quotes

“Knowledge without education is but armed injustice. ”

— Horace

“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

“I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.”

— Victor Hugo

“Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery. ”

— Franz Kafka

“Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough. ”

— George Washington Bush

“There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

— Helen Keller

“The giving of love is an education in itself.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.”

— Stephen King

“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.”

— John Locke

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”

— Clive Staples Lewis

“I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.”

— Groucho Marx

“We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.”

— Barack Obama

“Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.”

— Barack Obama

“You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.”

— Barack Obama

“We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.”

— Barack Obama

“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. Horace Mann Children, Means, Books Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”

— Horace Mann

“Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.”

— Horace Mann

“Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.”

— Horace Mann

“Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.”

— James Madison