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True Leadership is having multiple generations working together successfully and passionately to create significance.
— Farshad Asl
Achieving success is hard staying successful is even harder. 
— Frank Sonnenberg, BookSmart: Hundreds of real-world lessons for success and happiness
In success, knowledge - In failure, lessons.
— Garry Fitchett
Life is not the obstacle to human happiness. Life simply provides the opportunities to learn Life’s lessons and develop in ways, and acquire the necessary characteristics that can only be acquired through those opportunities Life provides.
— Auliq-Ice
There are so many lenses through which we look at life. There are so many lenses through which we perceive others. There are so many lenses through which we interpret things that happen to us in life and there are so many lenses that give us not just the different perspectives about life, but how we behave towards life and other people due to the reasons we have! Wealth influences our reasons and poverty directs our actions. Failure shows us a different way to behave and success gives us a different reason for action.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
You are surrounded by ignorance, savagery and fanaticism. You live in a society where everyone thinks he/she knows about everything in the whole universe. If you find yourself among those intellectual idiots, then being good and humble may give rise to doubts in your mind about your own ideas. So, you must first learn to distinguish between real and shallow intellect. Then, as a self- preservation tactic, you need to let your pretence of arrogance grow as big as a Dinosaur, so that the fake intellectuals start to realize their true inferiority in front of you.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
You must hiss at people who intend to undermine your individuality with their false pride and intellectual stupidity. You must frighten them away, lest they should do you harm. Act like you have a lot of venom inside you, but never inject them into anyone.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
Criticisms of a society filled with fools have no power in them to bother the sage that has emerged from the agonizing fire of misery.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
You can be good at many things, but you can only be great at one thing, until you find that thing, you are an average loser.
— M.F. Moonzajer, The Journalist: Attack on the Central Intelligence Agency
Realize yourself. Realize your abilities. Be sincere to nobody else, but yourself. Keep walking on the path of bravery. Keep walking on the path of your passion. Keep walking, and do not stop until you reach your goal.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
Never focus your attention on what the world has to say about you. Rather turn your focus inside and listen to what your inner voice has to say to you. You can find the answers to the most complicated questions of life from your deepest self. Pay attention and listen. Your inner self has to say something to you. Listen to that eternal entity within, and you shall discover the way through which you’ll reach your goal.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
Never focus your attention on what the world has to say about you. Rather turn your focus inside and listen to what your inner voice has to say to you.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
Have faith in yourself. All the power is in your biology already. Be conscious of that power and bring it out. Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
Moral character is the DNA of success and happiness.
— Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
All achievements begin with the simple cognitive faculties known as perception and imagination. Expand your perception. Expand your imagination. Be aware of your inner strength. Realize yourself. Realize your abilities. Be sincere to nobody else, but yourself. Keep walking on the path of bravery. Keep walking on the path of your passion. Keep walking, and do not stop until you reach your goal. And remember, there will always be another goal to be achieved. So, have pleasure from the pursuit.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
Pay attention and listen. Your inner self has to say something to you. Listen to that eternal entity within, and you shall discover the way through which you’ll reach your goal.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
​You can find the answers to the most complicated questions of life from your deepest self. Pay attention and listen.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
Pain is our salvation 'cos when it's dark enough, a star will reveal itself.
— Sola Kosoko
Someone is always feeding fat off everything you don't know.
— Sola Kosoko
The idea that sins can be forgiven is at the root of mankind's problems. Everyone pays...sooner or later.
— Sola Kosoko
Be excellent in your own terms. Do not look for approval from a single soul on this planet. Respect yourself and in time the whole world will respect you. It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
Respect yourself and in time the whole world will respect you.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
The more you worry about your spending, the less you focus on increasing your capacity.
— Sola Kosoko
Light up the radiant flame of conscience, goodwill and compassion in your heart, and go over the length and breadth of your society in the pursuit of shedding light over the whole world. And in time, you’ll become a glorious sun that will shine over the entire human population.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
​Let the lotus of your character be full-blown and the results will follow.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
Be brave and upright. Shred the fake mask of humility into pieces. And put on the mask of arrogance if needed. Take the whole responsibility of your surrounding society on your own shoulders. If you consider yourself a human being, who cares for humanity, then, become a brave responsible citizen of the whole world. If not a big banyan tree, at least be like a mango tree under the shade of which a few people can rest. You are the architects of this beautiful world. Build it your way. And nourish it with your modern conscience.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
Do not listen to a single soul, but your own inner voice. Foster your will and make it as wild as possible. Dive deep into the mysterious fathoms of the universe and accomplish your purpose by hook or by crook, even if it means going down to the bottom of the ocean to meet your doom.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
He who takes his eyes off the goal has a good chance of not scoring!" - Allan Rufus -learningcentre (dot)transformationcoach(dot)help/wp
— Allan Rufus
With each drop of tear that we shed in our times of excruciating pain, our brain constructs majestic new cellular connections to aid in the pursuit of our passion - in the pursuit of truth.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
Manifesting your dreams into reality becomes easier when your passionate commitment engages your laser focus on success
— Bluenscottish
The average person will take the excuses, but the leader will always take responsibilities
— Manuel Corazzari
Become a maniac on a mission: How to succeed in any venture or business .
— Phillip Gary Smith, HARMONIZING: Keys to Living in the Song of Life
All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do.
— Jaymin Shah
Success is far more perilous than failure, isn’t it? You’ve got to be doubly strong and watchful and wary.
— Noël Coward, Design for Living
People who can't be questioned often end up doing questionable things.
— Jon Acuff, Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck
When outcomes are uncertain, most of us spend a great deal of energy ruminating, worrying, and second-guessing ourselves. Not only is this a waste of time, but it makes us less likely to succeed
— Melanie Greenberg, The Stress-Proof Brain: Master Your Emotional Response to Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity
Sometimes I feel proud of myself, not because of any success I’ve achieved, but because I’m aware of all the difficulties that I have suffered or went through.I’m an eyewitness at all the fear, weakness, frustration, failure, depression, refraction and bad luck moments that I’ve been through alone and which affected significantly but never was able to beat me for so long.This is why I’m proud, because I’m here now stronger that yesterday, I'm still able to stand and continue on my way, still following up my dreams, still trying my best to build better future for me and my family and I will never ever give up!
— Shadi Kamal Kandil
Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls. 
— T.K. Naliaka
the only difference between you and someone you envy is you settled for less
— Philip C. McGraw
Comfort and security are all well and good, but not at the cost of liberty, love and lustiness. The Bohemian knows that money, property and status have little to do with the content of one’s character, and that professional success and widespread celebration have little to do with talent. Of value to the Bohemian is spiritual integrity and creative freedom. The Bohemian would sooner live in poverty than submit to an undesirable job.
— Robert Wringham, Escape Everything!: Escape From Work. Escape From Consumerism. Escape From Despair.
Failure brings success to those who don’t quit.
— Farshad Asl
True success is doing what you are born to do and doing it well.
— Sesan Kareem
Each and every one of us has his or her calling. Your calling may spring out of your gifts, potentials, talents, passions or hobby. Every man has his or her own niche, where he can function optimally and this is where his true success lies.
— Sesan Kareem
Be focused and learn what it takes to excel in your calling. Be patient and persistent in your drive to succeed. Be ready to pay the price of success because wealth without sweat is wishful thinking. Never give up on your dreams so you don’t lose what can actually bring you true success.
— Sesan Kareem
I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without paying the price. It takes an attitude of hard work, commitment and purpose.
— Farshad Asl
I challenge you to go after whatever it is you want in life. Don't die without trying to be all that you can be. In this book, I'm not encouraging you to sit back, nod and agree with me. I'm strongly encouraging you to go out and live your life to the full, do amazing things and be the best that you can be.
— Simon Paxton, Man Plan: How to Win at Life, Love, Work and Play by Australia's Only Japanese-speaking Kung Fu Black Belt Magician!
For me personally, there is one motivating factor more powerful than any other: one day we will all die. Why would you not want to live a full and fun life and be everything that you can be?
— Simon Paxton, Man Plan: How to Win at Life, Love, Work and Play by Australia's Only Japanese-speaking Kung Fu Black Belt Magician!
A consistent attitude of thankfulness will turn your success into significance.
— Farshad Asl
Achievement and fearfulness can't stay together.
— Tarang Sinha
The most important ingredient in the soup of life that makes its worthy to relish is the belief that success, greatness, happiness, joy, conquest, victory, triumph, peace and love are indeed achievable.
— Sesan Kareem
Failure is the step towards success.
— Ala barakah
A man can be richer than Solomon, the richest man that ever lived on our planet earth, or he may be greater than Alexander the Great, the greatest man in history. His name may be felt from the east where the sun rises to the west where it sets. He may travel around the world just like Dhul-Qarnain. Yet, he can still be a loser if he exempts God from his life.
— Sesan Kareem
This is my time, I don't own anyone but every one wants to get owned by me
— Piyush Negi
Your life may not have gone the way you planned it, but it will go the way it's supposed to.
— Jeanette Coron
The Truly wasting our personal time is:"Caring About the things; we always says " We don't Care About.
— Santosh Kumar Pyasa
Gratitude is one of the virtues of the noble man. It is the hallmark of a life lived well. It is a trademark of the righteous man. It is an attribute that significantly impacts on your personal happiness and how sound your relationship will be with others.
— Sesan Kareem
Overthinking, also, best known as creating problems that are never there
— David Sikhosana
The common feature of most of the successful people is, their talent is flexible to suit the needs of time.
— Rajasaraswathii, I Want to be a Millionaire
Always put people first, for without them, there is no organization
— David Sikhosana, Time Value of Money: Timing Income
Your success increases your haters...!!!
— M.Rehan Behleem
The law of cause and effect gets clear to you, when you realize the eternal truth within you. The failure or success with life is only because of, getting away and coming closer to the natural process of life.
— Roshan Sharma
Many people will often say you are a Smart, you are a Genius, give them a chance and they will say it enough for you to start believe it. When you get to that realization, Nothing will ever hold you back
— David Sikhosana
The price of success is the risk of self-esteem.
— Jim Ruta
The only pathway to your destruction is your ignorance.
— Auliq-Ice
Focus on The Present. Only The Present
— David Sikhosana, Time Value of Money: Timing Income
It is better to believe in nothing but success, than to believe in other things without success.
— Auliq-Ice
Most people dont understand the process. They get frustrated by it. Dont Be. Focus
— David Sikhosana
Never settle for less. Others may see it as lacking or not having. But Others also see it as having standards
— David Sikhosana, Time Value of Money: Timing Income
Customers, Employees and Others in that Order will determine the Success of your Company
— David Sikhosana, Time Value of Money: Timing Income
We are in the age of achievements provided we are adequately informed. we are not too young to make a difference nor too old to chart a new course
— Sesan Kareem
Crises is the code that can open the gene of success for some.
— Auliq-Ice
Understand Fundamental & Techical Analysis. Only then will you be Successful in Investing
— David Sikhosana, Time Value of Money: Timing Income
Much protest is naïve; it expects quick, visible improvement and despairs and gives up when such improvement does not come. Protesters who hold out longer have perhaps understood that success is not the proper goal. If protest depended on success, there would be little protest of any durability or significance. History simply affords too little evidence that anyone’s individual protest is of any use. Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one’s own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.
— Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
Success is simple, but isn't easy because it demands execution, not intentions.
— Orrin Woodward
Mindset matters... always. The difference found between the victorious and the envious, the successful and the haters; is mindset.
— Steve Maraboli
Emancipate yourself from the impotent mindset of,“It is what it is”. Life does not come labeled; it is what you make it. Dream-Plan-Execute!
— Steve Maraboli
I remind myself how people with a low propensity for success whose behavior is guided by fear, have a low propensity for success.
— Keith Ferrazzi, Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
If you're not aiming at perfection, you're not trying hard enough.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Don’t judge people for their success or what they have today, when you don’t know their past.
— Steeven Shaw
The true meaning of life lies in learning. When you learn, you understand the things better, when you understand the things better, it reflects in your actions, and when your actions are right, according to the process of life, you are bound to receive the desired result.
— Roshan Sharma
First visualize your goal in your mind. Then have a leap of faith, and let your passion guide you throughout the process.
— Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
You want a great life? Well, greatness is on the other side of that fu**ing wall... don't just go over it, go through it! What are you waiting for?
— Steve Maraboli
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
— Samuel Jackson
If you know, you are smart then never try to negotiate your intelligence for the inept.
— Anas Khan
People relates the process of evolution, as growth and success in the material world, rather in reality, the process of evolution, is all about, how you perceive life, with your understanding, in the present moment.
— Roshan Sharma
Limitations and Disbelief are the Worst Rules That Create The Prison of The Mind. Be Limitless
— David Sikhosana, Time Value of Money: Timing Income
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
— Mark Twain
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
— Oscar Wilde
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
— Augustine of Hippo
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
— Nelson Mandela
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
— Walter Cronkite
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
— Robert Frost
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
— Margaret Mead
The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
— T.H. White, The Once and Future King
Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.
— Steven Spielberg
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
— Mark Twain
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
— Frank Zappa
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
— Aristotle
Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.
— Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
Marriage can wait, education cannot.
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
— C.S. Lewis
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
— Plutarch
[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
— Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
— C.S. Lewis
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. 
— Jane Austen
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
— Nelson Mandela
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
— W.B. Yeats
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
— G.K. Chesterton
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
— Malcolm X
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
— Walter Scott
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
— Socrates
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.
— Noam Chomsky
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
— Isaac Asimov
You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!
— Bill Watterson
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
— Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
— Aristotle
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
— Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.
— Ray Bradbury
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
— Henry Ford
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
— Phil Collins
There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.""And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.""And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
— Stanley Kubrick
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
— Thomas Jefferson
Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune. 
— Jim Rohn
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
— Victor Hugo
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
— Thomas More, Utopia
I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.
— Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
— Mark Twain, Notebook
Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.
— Adelaide Hoodless
O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
— Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
— Richard Shaull, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.
— Frank Zappa
All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained
— Walt Disney Company
I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
— Martha Graham
Instruction does much, but encouragement everyt
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Early and Miscellaneous Letters of J. W. Goethe: Including Letters to His Mother. With Notes and a Short Biography
All I have learned, I learned from books.
— Abraham Lincoln
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.
— Claire Fagin
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
— Robert Orben
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
— Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man
I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.
— Malala Yousafzai
Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.
— Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create theirown.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
— G.K. Chesterton
My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelli
— Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey
A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.
— Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.
— James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
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.
— Albert Einstein
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
— James     Baldwin
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. "Leadership qualities" are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders.
— John Holt, Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. 
— Mark Twain
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
— Abigail Adams
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
— Brigham Young
When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness.
— David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it. Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
— Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
— H.G. Wells
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.
— Richard Feynman
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
— Confucius
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
— Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
— Jacques Barzun
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?
— George Washington
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.
— Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.
— Peter S. Jennison
Play is the highest form of research.
— Albert Einstein
We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.
— Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.
— Ron Paul
Ignorance is the parent of fear.
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.
— John Taylor Gatto
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
— Thomas Carlyle
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.
— Jean Piaget
Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.
— Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.
— Malala Yousafzai
The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.
— Harry Truman
Only the educated are free.
— Epictetus
[Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively]"Don't they teach you anything in your sch
— Rachel Caine, Feast of Fools
When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.
— Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inkling of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living...In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution; but that fact should not blind us to another—namely, that in so doing we are learning a trade or a profession, but are not getting a liberal education as human beings.
— James Truslow Adams
People think of education as something they can finish.
— Isaac Asimov
Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.
— Max Brooks, The Zombie Survival Guide
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
— Agatha Christie, An Autobiography
The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.
— Thomas A. Edison
You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality. 
— Beatrix Potter
What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.
— Harold Howe
You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.
— Julia Child
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. 
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they’ve learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.
— Greg Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
— Molière
The only things you learn are the things you tame
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
— Ezra Pound
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing
— Warren Buffett
A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.
— Anne Bishop, Daughter of the Blood
The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it
— Lawrence M. Krauss
Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous. 
— Confucius
I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.
— Malala Yousafzai
I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said, ‘If he comes, what would you do Malala?’ then I would reply to myself, ‘Malala, just take a shoe and hit him.’But then I said, ‘If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.’Then I said I will tell him how important education is and that ‘I even want education for your children as well.’ And I will tell him, ‘That’s what I want to tell you, now do what you want.
— Malala Yousafzai
There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
— bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
— John  Adams, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance.
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.
— Plato, The Republic of Plato
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
— Albert Einstein
There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.
— Gordon B. Hinckley, Way to Be!: 9 Rules For Living the Good Life
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
— Aristotle
A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.
— Ruth Beechick, An Easy Start in Arithmetic, Grades K-3
Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.
— Maria Montessori
Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.
— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educ
— Edith Hamilton
To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
— May Sarton
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. 
— Helen Keller
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
— Ken Robinson
It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.
— Claude Bernard
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
— Mark Twain
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.
— H.L. Mencken
We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.
— Freeman Dyson, Infinite in All Directions
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.
— George Clooney
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
— Will Durant
All of life is a constant education.
— Eleanor Roosevelt, The Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt
Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
— Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.
— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.
— Malala Yousafzai
It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.
— Murray N. Rothbard, Education, Free & Compulsory
Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.
— Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.
— Ezra Taft Benson
School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.
— Jim Benton
I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.
— Mark Twain
[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.
— Raymond S. Moore, School Can Wait
Educated men are so impressive!
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet