Education is the key to success, and these education quotes capture the wisdom and wit of famous educators, authors, and thinkers throughout the centuries. From inspiring mantras to thought-provoking statements, positive education quotes have the power to ignite the spark of ambition and show us the possibilities of what can be achieved through learning. Inspirational education quotes will renew your drive to learn, challenge you to innovate, and motivate you to press on.
Best Education Quotes
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela
Education is the movement from darkness to light. Allan Bloom
I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child. Ann Brashares
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Maimonides
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. Walter Cronkite
Change is the end result of all true learning. Leo Buscaglia
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Victor Hugo
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain
Education is the ability to meet life’s situations. Dr. John G. Hibben
Either you run the day or the day runs you. Jim Rohn
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. John Hersey
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. Socrates
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Best way to predict your Future is to create it. Abraham Lincoln
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Marian Wright Edelman
Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardour and diligence. Abigail Adams
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t. Bill Nye
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein
You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. Conrad Hall
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. Sydney J. Harris
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. Ernest Dimnet
Every artist was at first an amateur. Ralph W. Emerson
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. B.F Skinner
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. Mark Twain
Learning never exhausts the mind. Leonardo Da Vinci
All men by nature desire to know. Aristotle
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited. Plutarch
Education must not simply teach work it must teach Life. W. E. B. Du Bois
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. B.B King
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. Alexander the Great
The only real failure in life is one not learned from. Anthony J. D’Angel
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats
Learning without thought is a labor lost, thought without learning is perilous. Confucius
A good education is a foundation for a better future. Elizabeth Warren
Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. Oprah Winfrey
Education is a once in a lifetime opportunity to open children’s hearts and minds to the unbelievable wonder of the universe. Sir Anthony Seldon
All of the top achievers I know are life long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing and not moving toward excellence. Denis Waitley
Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn
Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John R. Wooden
The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know. Michel Legrand
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey
By seeking and blundering we learn. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle
School is the path, not the point. Will Richardson
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. Henry Ford
Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students. Robin Williams
Every artist was at first an amateur. Ralph W. Emerson
When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling. John Taylor Gatto
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes
Only the educated are free. Epictetus
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and made things happen. Elinor Smith
The real key to learning something quickly is to take a deliberate, intelligent approach to your learning. Lindsay Kolowich
You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. Conrad Hall
Do not confine your children to your own learning for they were born in another time. Hebrew Proverb
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. Chanakya
I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time. Mary Ann Shaffer
Learning is never done without errors and defeat. Vladimir Lenin
I don’t want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban. Malala Yousafzai
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence. Robert Frost
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. Leonardo da Vinci
All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one. Malala Yousafzai
It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal. Cormac McCarthy
The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. Dr. Seuss
The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth. Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi
With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism. Malala Yousafzai
A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. Mark Twain
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Aristotle
There are two types of people; the can do and the can’t. Which are you? George R. Cabrera
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. Claude Bernard
They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. Malala Yousafzai
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese Proverb
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. Aristotle
Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way. George Evans
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. Francis Bacon
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. Carl Rogers
The only dreams impossible to reach are the ones you never pursue. Michael Deckman
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. Mark Twain
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi
You cannot open a book without learning something. Confucius
You can never be overdressed or overeducated. Oscar Wilde
We learn from failure, not from success! Bram Stoker
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. Brigham Young
The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead. Jack Nicholson
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. St. Augustine
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. Thomas Carruthers
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. Socrates
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. Walter Cronkite
Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes
The past has no power over the present moment. Eckhart Tolle
Schools should be places to learn, not to teach. Don Tapscott
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence. Robert Frost
Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others. Roy T. Bennett
The best thing for being sad, replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn. T.H. White
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. Voltaire
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. Margaret Mead
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. Douglas Adams
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. Confucius
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. Leonardo da Vinci
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. Thomas Paine
Self education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. Isaac Asimov
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. Aristotle
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm S. Forbes
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. Frank Zappa
Education is helping the child realize his potentialities. Eric Fromm
Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers. Steven Spielberg
The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education. George Eastman
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. Plato
Education is the transmission of civilization. Will Durant
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Margaret Atwood
The most important thing that schools can do is not to use technology in the curriculum more, but to use it more effectively. John G. Palfrey
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C.S. Lewis
Education is the mother of leadership. Wendell Willkie
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special. Nelson Mandela
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. Shakuntala Devi
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. Leonardo da Vinci
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C.S. Lewis
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. Ernest Dimnet
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E.M. Forster
The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you. B.B. King
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. Charlotte Brontë
You learn something every day if you pay attention. Ray LeBlond
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. G.K. Chesterton
One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. Sophocles
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. Jane Austen
All things good to know are difficult to learn. Greek proverb
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. Malcolm X
All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand. David Hawkins
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. Confucius
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. Socrates
By education, I mean an all round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit. Mahatma Gandhi
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so on because they’re dysfunctional to the institutions. Noam Chomsky
Education is learning what you didn’t know you didn’t know. George Boas
Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be. Heath L. Buckmaster
Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute. John Adams
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on. Terry Pratchett
Intelligence and education that hasn’t been tempered by human affection isn’t worth a damn. Daniel Keyes
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. Sir Walter Scott
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. William Burroughs
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. Fran Lebowitz
The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives. Malala Yousafzai
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead. Aristotle
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. Confucius
I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. Ray Bradbury
Education is everything education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do. Ciara
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. Henry Ford