Famous Quotations

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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
— Maya Angelou
Topic: Education

Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions.
— William Allin
Topic: Education

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't know.
— Anatole France
Topic: Education

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
— Henry Peter Broughan
Topic: Education

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
— John Ciardi
Topic: Education

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
— Niels Bohr
Topic: Education

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
— Anne Sullivan
Topic: Education

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
— Malcolm Forbes
Topic: Education

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
— C S Lewis
Topic: Education

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.
— Sylvester Stallone
Topic: Endeavour

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