Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malala Yousafzai

I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.

Malala Yousafzai

I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

We were shocked with the findings. This is not just a matter of education anymore, it's about installing policies to help protect our children.

We want to lift all incomes and wealth. We are starting to see that the income gap is largely an education gap.

Marilynne Robinson

Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.

Abigail Adams

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Aaron Levie

The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.

A. J. Jacobs

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

A. N. Wilson

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

A. J. Muste

Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.

Richard Mourdock

Let's do away with the Departments of Education, Energy Commerce, Housing and Urban Development.

Abdoulaye Wade

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

Aeschylus

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Agatha Christie

I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

Agatha Christie

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

Adam Weishaupt

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

Adam Smith

An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . hunted out of every corner of the world.

Adam Gopnik

Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

Abraham Flexner

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

Sathya Baba

True education is not for a mere living, but for a fuller and meaningful life.

Today's older Americans are very different from their grandparents, living longer with lower rates of disability, with higher rates of education and garnering more wealth.

We need to teach more health education at the elementary school level.

Ludwig von Mises

Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures by boycotting and silencing the independent economists. But truth persists and works, even if nobody is left to utter it.

Heinrich Boll

The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.

Honeysuckle Weeks

I think to be a good actor you need either a good experience of life or education, or both.

James Russell Lowell

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

Geoffrey Canada

We've gotta guarantee all of our kids an education.

Waiter trainers claim that an investment in education pays off very quickly for restaurants.

With the way they've done it, we've got the most help we could get for tax payers under $20,000 (annual income) without hurting education too much.

Roy Barnes

Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems.

Paul Sadler

I went to Washington several times at the request of different parties to talk about education reform. I used to always say I felt like I needed to take a shower after I left, because it was so partisan that I just really hated it.