Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Sidney

It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.

Philip Sidney

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

Philip Guston

Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make some kind of jump or leap, where , the painting is always saying, 'What do you want from me? I can only be a painting.' You have to go from part to part, but you shouldn't see yourself go from part to part, that's the whole point.

Peter Drucker

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

Peter Drucker

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

Peter Drucker

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Peter Drucker

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

Peter Drucker

Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.

Marjane Satrapi

It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.

Meat Loaf

What about your school? It's defective, it's a pack of useless lies.

Meat Loaf

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

You couldn't really talk about anything else in education funding until you got the playing field leveled.

These are good schools, you can get a good education here.

Ralph Brown

These immigrants often don't speak English well and don't have much education, but they're physically capable. It's the first step in the ladder to the American dream.

Vint Cerf

This is mostly a highlighting and warning and education project.

This is a great day in Merced and a great day in higher education,

Niels Bohr

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

Nicolaus Copernicus

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Montel Williams

There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.

John Ruskin

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

John Ruskin

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

John Ruskin

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

John Ruskin

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

John Ruskin

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

John Ruskin

Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.

John Ruskin

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

John Ruskin

The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.

John Quincy Adams

Human life, from the cradle to the grave, is a school. At every period of his existence man wants a teacher. His pilgrimage upon earth is but a term of childhood, in which he is to be educated for the manhood of a brighter world. As the child must be educated for manhood upon earth, so the man must be educated upon earth, for heaven; and finally that where the foundation is not laid in time, the superstructure can not rise for eternity.

John Quincy Adams

To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history contained in the Bible ...it is not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with as it is shameful to be ignorant of it.

How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice!

Louise Hay

All teachers are good for someone. There are some teachers out there who I cannot stand, for whatever reason. I cannot even bear the sound of one teacher's voice. Yet they are wonderful teachers for other people. They just are not for me.

Lou Reed

I dreamed that I was young and smart, and it was not a waste. I dreamed that there was a point of life, and to the human race.

Lou Reed

Teach them about anger, the sin that comes with dawning. Teach them about flowers, and the beauty of forgiveness.