Alec Bourne

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Anatole France

Education is the best provision for old age.

Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

America believes in education: the average professor earns less money in a whole year than a professional athlete earns in a week.

Evan Esar

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

Gail Godwin

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.

George Bernard Shaw

A student by definition doesn't know what he or she doesn't know.

Michael Gorman

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.

Henry Brooks Adams

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Thomas Carruthers

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Jimmy Hendrix

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Chinese Proverb

If you plan for a year, plant a seed. If for ten years, plant a tree. If for a hundred years, teach the people.

Kuang Chung

You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Robert Frost

To teach is to learn twice.

Joseph Joubert

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Seneca

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

John Cotton Dana

Education is to mould the human being for ongoing change and even for the eventual crisis which might arise as a result of the transition.

Miguel Ángel Escotet

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Helen Keller

There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live.

John Adams

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.

Greek Proverb

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Sidney J. Harris

Education is not the filing of a pail, but the burning of a fire

William Butler Yeats

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

John Patrick

Education is the cheapest defense of nations.

Edmund Burke

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

Teachers are more than any other class the guardians of civilization.

Bertrand Russell

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

Karl Menninger

Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart.

Howard G. Hendricks

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.

Carl Gustav Jung

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

I touch the future, I teach

Christa McAuliffe

What is and how to achieve happiness? Buying objects / things?....That's what we are told every day by hundreds of commercial ads. Have knowledge and wisdom anything to do with happiness?

José Martí, a great Cuban thinker and patriot, once gave this advice in his famous Letter to Maria Mantilla, who many believe was his daughter:

"La elegancia..., -la grande y verdadera, -está en la altivez y fortaleza del alma. Un alma honrada, inteligente y libre, da al cuerpo más elegancia, y más poderío..., que las modas más ricas de las tiendas. Mucha tienda, poca alma. Quien tiene mucho adentro, necesita poco afuera. Quien lleva mucho afuera, tiene poco adentro, y quiere disimular lo poco. Quien siente su belleza, la belleza interior, no busca afuera belleza prestada: se sabe hermosa, y la belleza echa luz. Procurará mostrarse alegre, y agradable a los ojos, porque es deber humano causar placer en vez de pena, y quien conoce la belleza la respeta y la cuida en los demás y en sí."
José Martí

• "Elegance..., - the really great and true one, - is in the pride and strength of the soul. An honest, intelligent and free soul gives to the body more elegance and more power..., than the richest fashions of the stores. Much store, little soul. Who has much inside, needs little outside. Who needs to dress up outside, has little inside, and wants to conceal the little. Who feels her/his own beauty, the inner beauty, does not look outside for lent beauty: she/he knows she/he is beautiful and the beauty sparkles light. She/he should try to look cheerful and pleasant to the eyes, because it is a human duty to cause pleasure instead of pain, and the one who knows what beauty is, respects it and takes care of it in others and in himself."

José Martí

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