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In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Sep 29, 2025
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Teach a child how to think, not what to think.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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