Education Quote by Anonymous

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only…

— Samuel Johnson

“The mass of the educated spend their lives commenting lazily on the ideas of others. They engage their best energies in sadistic practices against…

— Elena Ferrante

We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

— Evelyn Boyd Granville

“Romans! They think women and children are fit sacrifices in war and anything less than crucifixion smacks of leniency. And they call us barbarians.…

— Manda Scott

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

— Timothy Leary

“This education we're giving them is the tool of destruction, of course; that's what makes it so painful. We're showing them how to accomplish…

— Malcolm Bradbury

I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there…

— Elie Wiesel

“The schools we go to are reflections of the society that created them. Nobody is going to give you the education you need to…

— Assata Shakur

“The influential classes, and those who take upon themselves to be leaders of the people, are fully liable to all the passionate error that…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that…

— Aldous Huxley

We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what…

— Anonymous