Educational Quotes - Page 8

• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Education, Book

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.270

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• The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

  John W. Gardner

  Leadership, Sports, Education

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• My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

  Maya Angelou

  Education, Mother, School

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 07, 2015

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• Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

  B. F. Skinner

  Graduation, Education, Teacher

  New Scientist 21 May 1964

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  People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

  Isaac Asimov

  Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners" edited by Geoff Tibballs, (p. 299), 2004.

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• A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Creativity, Learning

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• We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "Royal Truths, etc".

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• Light tomorrow with today!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.494, Delphi Classics

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• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

  Winston Churchill

  Nature, Humorous, Political

  Reader's Digest, December 1954.

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• You cannot open a book without learning something.

  Confucius

  Book, Reading, Learning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No amount of advertising can repair the damage done by failing to properly address a customer's concern.

  Albert Houtum-Schindler

  Done, Addresses, Damage

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• If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Freedom, War

  Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816

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• Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Teacher, Peace, Children

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  There is no education like adversity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Education, Teacher, Motivation

  Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Endymion”

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• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

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• I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

  Wilson Mizner

  Faith, Education, Teacher

  Quoted in Edward Dean Sullivan, The Fabulous Wilson Mizner (1935)

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• A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

  Brander Matthews

  Education, Latin, Humorous

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• One customer well taken care of could be more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising.

  Jim Rohn

  Business, Taken, Care

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 12, 2015

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• 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.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Education, Teacher, Mistake

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• A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

  James Stockdale

  Education, Ideas, Curiosity

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• It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Education, Work, Humorous

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• A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Education, Eye, Belief

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• If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.

  Jeff Bezos

  Stay Focused, Customer Satisfaction, Turns

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