Famous Quotes & Sayings

Narendra Modi

A society that does not give importance to education cannot progress. Let there be any Government, it must have a vision to make India shine in the field of education.

Narendra Modi

Can't India dream of exporting teachers of high calibre? Can't we instil the desire in children to become great teachers?

Narendra Modi

Modern science is a catalyst agent to fulfil the needs of humankind. We must ensure that it reaches to poorest of the poor.

Narendra Modi

We should remain students for lifetime. You should be ready and yearn to learn from every moment of life. The basic elements of life need to be associated with learning. The learning process should be a part of your DNA.

Narendra Modi

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

Narendra Modi

The wealth that increases by giving, That wealth is knowledge and is supreme of all possessions.

Napoleon Hill

The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

John Adams

The consequences of these institutions (The towns or districts, the congregations, the schools,and the militia.) have been, that the inhabitants, having acquired from their infancy the habit of discussing, of deliberating, and of judging of public affairs, it was in these assemblies of towns or districts that the sentiments of the people were formed in the first place, and their resolutions were taken from the beginning to the end of the disputes and the war with Great Britain.

John Adams

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

John Adams

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

John Adams

The education here intended in not merely that of the children of the rich and noble, but of every rank and class of people, down to the lowest and the poorest. It is not too much to say that schools for the education of all should be placed at convenient distances, and maintained at the public expense.

John Adams

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

John Adams

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

John Adams

And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.

John Adams

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Jack Welch

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

Harvey Mackay

There's a place in the world for any business that takes care of its customers-after the sale.

Dan Castellaneta

And how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?

John Ruskin

The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge.

The group was formed to provide fellowship, fun and education.

Al Gore

The improvement in education should not be limited to technical related fields, as it should extends to include other systems of knowledge.

James Anthony Froude

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

Henry Anatole Grunwald

Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter.

Henry Adams

All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.

Henry Adams

Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by choice, on the lines of force that attract their world. What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

Henry Adams

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Adams

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

Henry Adams

They know enough who know how to learn.

Henry A. Kissinger

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Helen Hayes

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Hector Berlioz

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Hector Hugh Munro

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

Henry David Thoreau

As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting a compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them.