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"Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil." Plato 4.53846153846154 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"People will pay more to be entertained than educated." Johnny Carson 4.52631578947368 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him." Benjamin Franklin 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything." Thomas Edison 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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 know and what you don't." Malcolm Forbes 4.44444444444444 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about." Wayne Dyer 4.42857142857143 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul." Joseph Addison 4.42857142857143 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger." Confucius 4.41666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil." C.S. Lewis 4.36842105263158 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it." Daniel Webster 4.33333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies." Leon Trotsky 4.33333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"While the romanticized ideal of universal public education resonates with the cognoscenti who oppose vouchers, poor urban families just want the best education for their children, who will certainly need it to function in our high-tech and advanced society." Clarence Thomas 4.33333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education." Bertrand Russell 4.33333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself." Bill Gates 4.17647058823529 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." Will Durant 4.16666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher." Elbert Hubbard 4.13793103448276 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Learning without thought is labor lost." Confucius 4.07692307692308 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge." Elbert Hubbard 4.07692307692308 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn." Robert Frost 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"We are living in a world, where what we earn is a function of what we learn." Bill Clinton 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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