Education Quote by Lin Yutang

“It takes knowledge and experience to say precisely and consisely what is true and what is needed. Scholarship often excels in lofty learning and…

— George Canty

“Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…”

— Plato

Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call at the…

— Abu Rayhan al-Biruni

“Without the willingness to study, how can you become a scholar?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Our academic system rewards people who know a lot of stuff and generally we call those people smart, but at the end of the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

“What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.”

— Thomas Sowell

“You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you never achieve…

— Stephen R. Covey

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences…

— Joseph Stiglitz

“much of that which is taught in the schools is of no value whatsoever in connection with the business of earning a living or…

— Napoleon Hill

“Greatness is sifted through the grind, therefore don't despise the hard work now for surely it will be worth it in the end.”

— Sanjo Jendayi

“Grit, which they defined as the tendency to work strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in…

— Charles Duhigg