Quotes About Education

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

— Nelson Mandela

"The best possible investment you can make in your future is an education."

— Unknown

"A single conversation with a wise man is worth a month's study of books"

— A Chinese Proverb

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

— Benjamin Franklin

"Education will open doors. Talent will open worlds. But it is hard work that will enable you to accomplish more than you ever imagined."

— Mary Barra, Stanford University

"Super-successful people know more than others do because they're constantly working to increase their self-awareness. They vow constant growth. Whenever they have a spare moment, they fill it with self-education."

— Travis Bradberry

"It is also vital to a valuable education that independent critical thinking be developed in the young human being, a development that is greatly jeopardized by overburdening with too much and too varied subjects. Overburdening necessarily leads to superficiality."

— Albert Einstein

"He that lives well, is learned enough."

— Benjamin Franklin, 1736

"Every healthy child is a potential genius, but whether they become so or not depends on circumstances, on education, and on themselves."

— Polgar

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."

— Benjamin Franklin

"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education."

— Sir Walter Scott

"Never try to be better than someone else, always learn from others. Never cease trying to be the best you can be - that's under your control."

— John Wooden, Coach, 10x National Champion

"Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast, or a bridge player."

— Bill Gates

"Many things can be acquired with money, many by deceit, and many by falsehood. But there is one thing that can be obtained only by honest labor, for which a king must work as hard as a coalman, and that is knowledge."

— The Talmud

"Education conquers all. Give us education and we, in no more than a century, will change the character of Europe."

— C.A. Helvetius

"The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people.. The best asset is in your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be"

— Warren Buffett.

"Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better."

— Sylvia Porter

"Give me a fish and I will eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I will eat for a lifetime."

— Anonymous