Famous Quotes & Sayings

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

Wole Soyinka

Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.

William Godwin

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

David Blunkett

As education and employment secretary in 1997, I inherited hundreds of schools where the roofs leaked, the windows rattled, and they relied entirely on outside toilets.

Robert Green Ingersoll

In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

We have made arrangements to fulfill food, shelter, education and health requirements for the convenience of the government servants.

We have lost a very valuable person who has left a lot of his philosophy of education still with the teachers who started with him.

William H. McRaven

SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Liang Chow

God had a plan for everything. I never knew I'd come to Iowa, but now I love Iowa. Everything is so great about it - the people, the environment, education. I'm so proud to say I'm an Iowan. I'm living the dream.

Bill Frist

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.

Bobby Heenan

I don't look at myself as a hero or smart person. I have a seventh-grade education, but I've had a lot of fun.

Charlie Trotter

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

Samuel Butler

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Edward James Olmos

Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

Justin Trudeau

I think people understand that if you're going to have a successful economy, you need people's potential to be realized. That means education. It means university education, sure, but it also means training, apprenticeships and various kinds of skills diplomas that we know are necessary.

Nicola Sturgeon

A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people.

Nicola Sturgeon

The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.

Lily Tomlin

I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.

Nancy Gibbs

When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

Aleister Crowley

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

Albert Einstein

The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

Albert Einstein

The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.

Albert Einstein

I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.

Albert Einstein

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Albert Einstein

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

Albert Einstein

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

Albert Einstein

All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.