inspirational quotes about education

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history. ~Woodrow Wilson



A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world. ~Helen Rowland



On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years. ~Judith Krantz



Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. ~Mark Twain



I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements. ~Henry David Thoreau



Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel



Good things come to those who bait. ~Author Unknown



I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years in college. ~Hubert Humphrey, speech, 1960



Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Parting of the Ways," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



Cats come and go without ever leaving. ~Martha Curtis



Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb



Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. ~Woodrow Wilson



The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle. ~Author Unknown



Missing you could turn from pain to pleasure, if I knew you were missing me too. ~Author Unknown



A college education shows a man how little other people know. ~Thomas Chandler Haliburton



You can only trust yourself... and barely that. ~Paige Wilson



You don't take a photograph, you make it. ~Ansel Adams



If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation. ~Kin Hubbard



Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ~Oprah Winfrey



Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905