Education Quote by Confucius

In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

— Confucius

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.

— Thomas Lodge

Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.

— Confucius

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

— William E. Gladstone

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

— Democritus

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

— Jacques Barzun

Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.

— Socrates

My view of university training is to unsettle the minds of young men, to widen their horizons, to inflame their intellects. It is not…

— Robert M

Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

— James Allen