Knowledge Education Quotes - Page 2

• Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

  Confucius

  Education, Homeschooling, Certain Knowledge

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• The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

  Herbert Spencer

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Education, Wise

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 141

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• I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

  Lily Tomlin

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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• Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

  Albert Einstein

  Learning, Science, Awe And Wonder

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.425, Princeton University Press

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• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

  Oscar Wilde

  Graduation, Education, Time

  Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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  I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Leadership, Education

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

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• Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

  Albert Einstein

  Teacher, Educational, Teaching

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.67, Broadway Books

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Educational, Knowledge

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• One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

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• Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vice President Mike Pence's Speech at Grove City College, time.com. May 20, 2017.

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• The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

  Robertson Davies

  Educational, Knowledge, Eye

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

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• The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Wisdom, Lying

  "Encore : A Continuing Anthology‬". Book by Smith Dent, p. 309, March 1945.

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• The world is full of educated derelicts.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Knowledge, Information Is Power

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

  James A. Garfield

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.783, Best Books on

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• You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Travel, Flower

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1321, Delphi Classics

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• Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

  Alexander Pope

  Birthday, Graduation, Education

  Epistles to Several Persons "To Lord Cobham" l. 101 (1734)

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• The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

  James Madison

  Education, Freedom, Inspirational Life

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.41, University of Virginia Press

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• The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Teacher, Appreciation

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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