Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winston Churchill

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

William Vickrey

Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life.

Will Rogers

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

Will Rogers

Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.

Will Rogers

Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.

Will Rogers

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

Zora Neale Hurston

It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.

Zachary Taylor

The Bible is the best of books, and I wish it were in the hands of every one. It is indispensable to the safety and permanence of our institutions. A free government can not exist without religion and morals, and there cannot be morals without religion. Especially should the Bible be placed in the hands of the young. It is the best school book in the world. I would that all our people were brought up under the influence of that holy book.

Zach Wamp

You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.

Zig Ziglar

What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.

Twyla Tharp

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.

Twyla Tharp

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

William Glasser

We learn... 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we both hear and see 70% of what is discussed 80% of what we experience personally 95% of what we teach to someone else

William Godwin

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

Walter Lippmann

We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

Voltaire

Nature has always had more force than education.

Voltaire

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

William Feather

Education is knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and its knowing how to use the information you get.

William Feather

In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability.

William Feather

In education it 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. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know and it's knowing how to use the information you get.

William Ralph Inge

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

William Ralph Inge

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

William Irwin Thompson

Science is the storytelling of our time.

Walter Scott

God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.

Winston Churchill

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. I scribbled all my opinions on the margins of the pages ... From Gibbon I went to Macauley. I had learnt The Lays of Ancient Rome by heart, and loved them; and of course I knew he had written a history; but I had never read a page of it ... I accepted all Macauley wrote as gospel, and I was grieved to read his harsh judgements upon the Great Duke of Marlborough.

Winston Churchill

How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.

Winston Churchill

In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

Winston Churchill

It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.

Robert Green Ingersoll

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Sandra Cisneros

If we got an educational program going, we could tell people, "Instead of butter, use avocado." That's something we eat, it has the good fat, and it has a good texture, and it tastes better. Just imagine if you substituted that. Or if we switched to olive oil, the extra virgin olive oil, we could still have our taquitos, but put a little oil on them and put them in the oven and bake them.