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Educational Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by…
- Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only…
- And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man…
- Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that…
- .. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted…
- Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those…
- The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.
- Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other…
- Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles.
- Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him…
- As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make…
- In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of…
- The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die…
- Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other…
- Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in company; morning and…
- For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and…
- Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
- 'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself…
- Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons…
More Educational Quotes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
- Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some… — Alfred Austin
- Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success. — Joe Baca
- Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
- A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. — Francis Bacon