»
Quote DB
Authors
Categories
Speeches
Search
My Quote List
Add Quotes to Your Site - Quote Generator
add
quote of the day
,
random quotes
or by topic (e.g.
funny quotes
)
Quote DB
:: Education
Search in this category
Knowledge
(25)
Sponsored Links
Quote
Author
Rating
Rate
"The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value."
Oscar Wilde
"If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them."
Buckminster Fuller
"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again."
Kurt Vonnegut
"I believe one of the reasons so many do not get a higher education is the fear of their parents that they will lose more morally than they will receive mentally."
William Jennings Bryan
"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard."
Robert Frost
"Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching."
Oscar Wilde
"From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world."
Dick Cheney
<< Previous
1
2
3
4
Browse Education quotes by Author:
Albert Einstein
Alexandre Dumas
Ambrose Bierce
Aristotle
Benjamin Franklin
Bertrand Russell
Bill Clinton
Bill Gates
Buckminster Fuller
Charles Caleb Colton
Clarence Thomas
Colin Powell
Confucius
C.S. Lewis
Daniel Webster
Dante Alighieri
David Hume
Dick Cheney
Elbert Hubbard
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ernest Hemingway
Frank Zappa
George Santayana
John Adams
John F. Kennedy
Johnny Carson
Joseph Addison
Kurt Vonnegut
Laurence Peter
Leon Trotsky
Leonardo da Vinci
Mahatma Gandhi
Malcolm Forbes
Mark Twain
Napoleon Bonaparte
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oscar Wilde
Pablo Picasso
Plato
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Frost
Theodor Seuss Geisel
Thomas Edison
Thomas Jefferson
Wayne Dyer
Will Durant
William Jennings Bryan
» Copyright © QuoteDB 2005
Quotes to your site
Links
Privacy