Education requires a lot of books—wisdom requires a lot of time.
Natural ability without education has more often raised man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
A good teacher captures a student’s attention so he can direct it toward God.
To teach is to learn twice.
School is a building that has four walls—with tomorrow inside.
In the dark ages, people belonged to the kings. When education spread, kings belonged to the people.
A little education properly applied is more important than much education not properly utilized.
Some folks may live and learn, but by the time they’ve learned it’s usually too late to live.
While we may learn from the error of our ways, we would probably be happier with less education.
A child who knows how to pray, work, and think is already half-educated.
Some historians are deaf—they go on answering questions no one has asked them.
Education will survive when what some have learned will be forgotten.
Most students have the spark of genius—but a few seem to have ignition trouble.
An education is nothing more than going from an unconscious to a conscious awareness of one’s ignorance.
Knowledge humbles great men, astonishes the common man, and puffs up the little man.
Knowledge is power only when it is turned on.
Intelligence is like a river—the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
Knowledge is power, and is dynamite. Both are dangerous unless handled wisely.
You can always tell a well-informed man—his ideas are the same as yours.
The highest knowledge is the knowledge of God.
Knowledge is power, but like power it must be hitched to something effective.
It isn’t the things that people know that do the dirty work; it’s the things “they know ain’t so” that do the dirty work.
Ideas are like children—our own are very wonderful.
A person who “knows everything” has a lot to learn.
It’s what you learn after you know all that counts.
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to he who can give it.
The reason some people say nothing worthwhile is there’s nothing worthwhile inside.
Knowing that you don’t know much is knowing more than most.
Half knowledge is worse than ignorance.
Definition of advice: those who need it don’t heed it; those who heed it don’t need it.
Machines are so nearly human that they can do things without using any intelligence.
The nice thing about dictating letters is that you can use a lot of words you don’t know how to spell.
A college education never hurt anyone who was willing to learn something afterward.
The trouble with some people is that they are educated beyond their intelligence.
Knowledge is like money; the more a man gets, the more he craves.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Education covers a lot of ground, but it does not cultivate it.
Philosophy is the last refuge of thinkers.
A man who acquires knowledge and does not use it is like a farmer who plows his field but doesn’t sow it.
One need not be smart to say things that are.
An ignorant person is the one who doesn’t know something you learned yesterday.
Wouldn’t it be nice to be as sure of anything as some people are of everything?
Education is not given for the purpose of earning a living; it is learning what to do with a living after you earn it.
Broad-minded: capable of seeing both points—the wrong one and his own.
Memory is what tells you that you know the guy but doesn’t tell you his name.
The greatest aid to the education of adults is children.
Readers make good talkers.
The heart of education is the education of the heart.
He who will not learn from anyone but himself has a fool for a teacher.
Experience has been defined as “compulsory education.”
Education is what you have left over when you subtract what you’ve forgotten from what you’ve learned.
Education is a chest of tools.
School days can be the happiest days of your life, provided the children are old enough to go.
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
If you divorce education from religion, you will produce a race of clever devils.
Education means developing the mind, not suffering the memory.
Only when you skate on thin ice is there greater safety in increased speed.
The school of hard knocks is the only way sense can be knocked into some people.
How much a man knows is of no importance; what matters is what he knows, and what he does with what he knows.
We all have the right to be wrong in our opinions but not in our facts.
There are more idle brains than idle hands.
The sign: “Proceed at your own risk” should be placed on all roads to higher education.
Reading makes a full man; writing makes an exact man.
Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you.
People who tell everything they know wouldn’t be so bad if they’d stop there.
Too often man’s intellect is measured by the size of his bank account.
You’re never too old to learn—and what you learn is what makes you old.
He who knows how to read but doesn’t read is no different than the man who can’t read.
It’s better to be straight than to be smart.
Fifty-one percent of being smart is knowing what you’re dumb at.
It is better to make new mistakes than it is to repeat the old ones.
The best education is caught—not taught.
Nothing on earth has a harder road to travel than a new idea.
Education is the only thing people are willing to pay for and not get.