Education Quotes · Page 615

Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university.

— Claude Lelouch

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

— Sebastiao Salgado

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.

— Ivan Pavlov

There's no place on earth with more dumb girls per square foot than a college in California.

— Roberto Bolano

That’s the first step to learning: admitting what you don’t know.

— Amy Neftzger

My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as…

— Adnan Sami

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

— Tupac Shakur

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing…

— Marlo Thomas

I would have to say I was an excellent student. I was the type to always do my homework and study when…

— Tia Mowry

“I also believe that the boundaries of school need to be made more porous and permeable, that we need to reduce the…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

There's so many people who come to me here in L.A., promising me this and promising me that. What I'm learning is…

— Ryan Garcia

My overriding concern was that children only get one shot at education, so I felt it was the right thing to do…

— Gavin Williamson

There were so many great teachers that had so much to offer. The idea of being rigid, why would you do that?…

— Johnny Depp

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as…

— Michael Moriarty

It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is…

— John Wooden

“It is the well educated who will improve society—and they will improve it, at first, by criticizing it, and we are giving…

— John Irving

“Not all will believe in my teaching. And they who will not believe, will hate it; because it bereaves them of that…

— Leo Tolstoy

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or…

— Jonathan Kozol

My teachers have taught me something wonderful. Whatever a person truthfully offers to others with love comes back to him manifold. Dynamic…

— T Joseph Benziger

Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools…

— Andrew Card

'Studying the Way' is just a figure of speech, a method of arousing people's interest in the early stages of their development.…

— Huangbo Xiyun

This study is not for the amateur. It's not for the dilettante. It's not for the cult follower. It's not for someone…

— Frederick Lenz

Teachings and ideologies subversive to the fundamental principles of this great Republic, which are contrary to the Constitution of the United States,…

— David O. McKay

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

— Madeleine L'Engle

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

— Morgan Freeman

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

— Francois Hollande

Nothing brings more money to the Treasury of the United States, than investment in education of the American people.

— Nancy Pelosi

Shouldn't everybody join hands to give the basic minimum - food, education and health - to the entire population?

— Charan Das Mahant

You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.

— Gene Sharp

Integrated education should be the norm - I'm passionate about that.

— Adrian Dunbar

“All of us have two educations; one which we receive from others; another and more valuable; which we give ourselves.”

— John Randolph

We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons.

— Stephen King

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

— Anonymous

“Pray remember, Alice—love isn’t all. There is family, and education, and potential. Also property, of course.”

— Melanie Benjamin

“Focusing on what you've done is not as important in this learning process as focusing on who you have become”

— Merrilee Boyack

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

— Bill Gates

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.

— David Rockwell

Thanks to Coach Bennett for a great education in basketball and for making me better.

— Malcolm Brogdon

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

— Benjamin Franklin