Quotes on Education

The ascending spiral of greatness in America has risen because industry has produced wealth, which in turn has supported educational institutions, which in turn have supplied leadership to industry in order that with each succeeding generation it might produce more wealth.Wallace Bennett

• wealth
• education
• business

Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures, we should put them behind us and go ahead, for vain regretting interferes with the flow of power into our own personalities.Edith Johnson

• learning
• education
• regret
• failure
• mistakes

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors are finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.Thomas Carlyle

• education
• reading
• books

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.Henry Ford

• education
• age

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.Lord Chesterfield

• education

The ability for self-government is arrived at only through an extensive training and education.Calvin Coolidge

• education
• government
• democracy

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.Benjamin Disraeli

• education
• knowledge

It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form correct judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.Calvin Coolidge

• education
• knowledge
• wisdom
• experience

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.James Thurber

• education