Education

Best Quotes and speeches on Education

1. A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.
   – Hexley Aldous
2. A bestseller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling.
   – Daniel Boorstin J.
3. A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems.
   – William B. Sprague
4. A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.
   – Carolyn G. Heilbronn
5. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
   – Henry Brooks Adams
6. A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
   – Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle
7. Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your household.
   – Tryon Edwards
8. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
   – Benjamin Franklin
9. Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
   – Mark Twain
10. Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.
    – Christopher Paolin
11. Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
    –Sir Claus Moser
12. Education determines whether a man becomes the tamest or the wildest animal on earth, for if a man lacks education he is the most savage of beast.
    – Plato
13. Education does not provide an escape route from poverty, but a means to fight it.
    – Julius Nyerere
14. Education in music is most sovereign, because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it, bringing with them and imparting grace, if one is rightly trained.
    – Plato
15. Education is the ability to meet life’s situation.
    – Dr. John Hibben
16. Education is the mother of leadership.
    — Wendell Willkie
17. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
    – Albert Einstein
18. Every artist writes his own autobiography.
    – Havelock Ellis
19. Gentlemen! I have not had your advantages. What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.
    – Horatio Bottomley