Education Quotes · Page 299

“If I don’t succeed, I will try again and never stop trying. When I succeed, I will again explore new opportunities.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.

— Karl Jaspers

“School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

— Confucius

I never went to a writing school, so 'The Wire' was my writing school.

— George Pelecanos

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

— Leonardo da Vinci

When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn

— Jon Gordon

Relationships are like a book, in that they are for learning.

— Marshall Sylver

Everyone is going to learn and grow... And if someone is going to judge me over that, then I'd rather not be…

— Micah Parsons

Education has to be welcomed as a Spiritual Practice for the establishment of Peace in the individual heart as well as in…

— Sai Baba

No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not…

— Cyril Connolly

I can remember in second grade coming back from school and telling my mom, 'You know what, before I play in the…

— Brook Lopez

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of…

— Charlotte Mason

“No matter what the practice or teaching, ego loves to wait in ambush to appropriate spirituality for its own survival and gain.”

— Chögyam Trungpa

Kids who are in school just visit life sometimes, and then they have to stop to do homework or go to sleep…

— Sandra Dodd

I was actually in New Zealand studying, and I just got discovered. I was with my friend shopping, and this woman came…

— Stella Maxwell

I do have a plan for the country [the USA]. It needs education. And there should be drug education - only people…

— Tommy Chong

Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect…

— Dalai Lama

Our Holy Father... is very clear that, of course, the teachings of the Church must be preserved and passed on. However, we…

— Joseph Edward Kurtz

My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked…

— David Oyelowo

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody.…

— Neil Gaiman

“The educational element in the adab discussion of knowledge is unmistakable in a monograph entitled “The Encouragement of Seeking and Being Eager…

— Franz Rosenthal

Making the future and the road to the future wealth lies in the youth of the present and future, and rebuilding the…

— Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind…

— Damian Lewis

The first 10 years of my education were spent at a Catholic school in Springfield, Mass.

— Ann Dowd

Every new project, every new team and everything teaches you with something which you haven't learnt or done before.

— Vaani Kapoor

Life is set up to bring you every needed situation in its own right time.

— Deepak Chopra

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

To be happy we need continuous growth and the best way to grow is life long education.

— Senoraroy

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Singing is something that I have learnt. I have given exams for it.

— Parineeti Chopra

Energy use is merely a means to many rewarding ends: economic security, education, health.

— Vaclav Smil

It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.

— Ken Robinson

I had to learn to value myself before I could expect to be valued by others

— Kay Hooper

The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.

— Ernest Hemingway

Love is a modest and immodest teacher who will bring you through the school of existence, which is the heart.

— Frederick Lenz

I always considered the role of teaching to be very noble and relevant.

— Santiago Calatrava

In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.

— Zac Goldsmith

Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Study and research into truth often only serves to make us see by experience our natural ignorance.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable