Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Ray Inman

A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

Bobby Vinton

Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.

Bob Dylan

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Bob Dylan

They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.

Bob Dylan

People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within.

Bob Dylan

Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.

Bob Dylan

As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.

Bob Dylan

My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

Brigham Young

See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning..

Brigham Young

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Anzia Yezierska

At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.

Edmund Barton

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

Edmund Burke

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Elie Wiesel

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

Elie Wiesel

I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

Elie Wiesel

There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.

Edward R. Murrow

I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.

Edward R. Murrow

This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.

Billy Joel

No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?

Billy Joel

I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.

Billy Joel

There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks.

Billy Joel

The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.

Billy Joel

You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.

Bill Russell

Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."

Beyonce Knowles

I can not imagine my life if I didn't have a music program in my school.

Edward James Olmos

Education is a vaccine for violence.

Edward Hirsch

Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.

Edward Gibbon

One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education.

Edith Wharton

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

Earl Warren

In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place

Earl Warren

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.