150+ Famous Education Quotes

Famous Education Quotes for students

1.  “A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
2. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
3. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” – Victor Hugo
4. “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
5. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
6. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
7. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
8. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar
9. “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Andy McIntyre
10. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change.” – Carl Rogers
11. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain
12. “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant
13.  “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer
14. “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” – Tom Bodett
15. “We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” – Lloyd Alexander
16. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John R. Wooden
17. “You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.” – Abraham Maslow
18. “If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Ben Franklin
19. “If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
20. n easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.” – John Newton

 Famous educational quotes for students motivation

1. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
2. “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” – Maya Angelou
3. “Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.” – Francis Bacon
4. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
5. “Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
6. “They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace.” – Malala Yousafzai
7. “That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.” – Seneca
8. “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” – Leonardo da Vinci
9. “Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.” – James Dewar
10. “Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.” – Chinese proverb
11. “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” – Bill Nye
12. “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” – Dorothy Parker
13. “Success is a poor teacher.” – Robert Kiyosaki
14. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
15. “Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.” – Robin Williams
16. “The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.” – Cicero
17. “Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.” – Lee Iacocca
18. “Despise school and remain a fool.” – German proverb
19. “Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.” – Bruce Lee
20. “As long as you live, keep learning how to live.” – Seneca
21. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” – Nora Roberts
22. “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.” – Baruch Spinoza
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23. “The learned man knows that he is ignorant.” – Victor Hugo
24. “Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves.” – Euripides
25. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino
26. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein
27.  “Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” – Chinese Proverb
28. “Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” – Charles F. Kettering
29. “Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” – Zig Ziglar
30. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn

Famous Education Quotes for Teachers

1. “You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.” – Clay P. Bedford
2. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry B Adams
3. “Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.” – John W. Gardner
4. “To teach is to learn twice.” – Joseph Joubert
5. “Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.” – Chinese proverb
6. “What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” – Alfred Mercier
7. “Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?” – Erich Fromm
8. “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” – James Baldwin
9. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer
10. “Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” – Roger Lewin
11. “The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.” – Bill Beattie
12. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
13. “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” – G.K. Chesterton
14. “Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” – Lady Bird Johnson
15. “Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.” – Chinese proverb
16. “Nine tenths of education is encouragement.” – Anatole France
17. “If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.” – Jim Rohn
18. “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.” – Goethe
19. “Education cost money, but then so does ignorance.” – Claus Moser
20. “I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.“ – Steve Irwin
21. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
22. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead
23. “The person who asks questions is more helpful than the person who offers advice.” – James Clear
24. “Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
25. “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.” – Plato
26. “Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” – Jim Henson
27. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” – Aristotle
28.  “The more you make it easy for your kids, the more you remove the struggle necessary for learning.” – Maxime Lagacé
29. “The highest result of education is tolerance.” – Hellen Keller
30. “All learning has an emotional base.” – Plato
31. “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” – C.S. Lewis
32. “If a seed of a lettuce will not grow, we do not blame the lettuce. Instead, the fault lies with us for not having nourished the seed properly.” – Buddhist proverb
33. “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” – Franklin P. Jones
34. “Education is supposed to juice your curiosity, not diminish or sate it.” – Walter Isaacson
35. “The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
36. “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” – Diogenes
37. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch
38. “People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.” – Socrates
39. “By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand.” – Latin proverb
40. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
41. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” – Bob Talber
42. “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” – Maya Angelou
43. “The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg — not by smashing it.” – Arnold Glasow

Quotes on the Power of Education

1. “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” – Epictetus
2. “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” – Abraham Maslow
3.  “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle
4. “No man who worships education has got the best out of education…. Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.” – G.K. Chesterton
5. “When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.” – Peter Drucker
6. “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” – Gloria Steinem
7. “If a man is a fool, you don’t train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.” – Desmond Bagley
8. “The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.” – William R. Inge
9. “People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.” – Bill Vaughan
10. “What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.” – Henry David Thoreau
11. “Change is the end result of all true learning.” – Leo Buscaglia
12. “Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.” – Edward De Bono
13. “I’ve learned… that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.” – Andy Rooney
14. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris
15. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain
16. “What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul.” – Joseph Addison
17. “Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” – Peter Brougham
18. “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” – Albert Einstein
19. “Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.” – William Haley
20. “A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” – Helen Keller
21. “It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.” – Robert G. Ingersoll
22. “Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.” – Abraham Lincoln
23. “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” – Buckminster Fuller
24.  “Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.” – John Keats
25. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.“ – Jim Rohn
26. “It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time – for we are bound by that – but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.” – T.S. Eliot
27. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
28. “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost
29. “Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.” – John F. Kennedy
30. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” – Henry Ford
31. “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” – Brigham Young
32. “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” – Thomas Paine
33. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King
34. “When you educate one person you can change a life, when you educate many you can change the world.” – Shai Reshef
35. “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.” – Aristotle
36. “The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” – Michel Legrand
37. “A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.” – George Santayana
38. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King