Education QuotesThe wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. - Benjamin D'IsraeliThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. - Orville Wright The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. - Sam Houston Be led by reason. - Greek Proverb Only the educated are free. - Epictetus The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. Samuel Butler Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Winston Churchill Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. - Albert Gyorgyi 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. - Anatole France Education is the ability to meet life's situations. - Dr. John G. Hibben The true university these days is a collection of books. Thomas Carlyle Genius always finds itself a century too early. - Emerson When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, the dunces are all against him. - Jonathan Swift To live life effectively is to live with adequate information. - Norbert Weiner Logic is the art of making the truth prevail. - La Bruyere The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. - Stephen W. Hawking The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself, and is capable of thinking hard and long. - Charles W. Eliot Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. - Walter Lipman The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages may be preserved by quotation. - Benjamin Disreali The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second is to know that which is true. - Lactantius A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. - Spanish Proverb When I want to understand what is happening today, I try to decide what will happen tomorrow; I look back; a page of history is worth a volume of logic. - Oliver Wendell Holmes The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living. - G. K. Chesterson Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer. - Edmund Burke To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to always remain a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history? - Cicero So little trouble do men take in search for the truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand. - Thucydides Man's most judicious trait, is a good sense of what not to believe. - Euripides If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind us. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge That men do not learn much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to tech us. - Aldous Huxley
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