Education Quotes

We love to learn because learning feels good. It both satisfies and stimulates curiosity. Reading a good book, having a meaningful conversation, listening to great music—just doing these things make us happy. They have no extrinsic purpose. To give them one takes away from their joy.

~ Zander Sherman

At the age of twelve, before I had had one full year of formal schooling, I had a conception of life that no experience would ever erase, a predilection for what was real that no argument could ever gainsay, a sense of the world that was mine and mine alone, a notion as to what life meant that no education could ever alter, a conviction that the meaning of living came only when one was struggling to wring a meaning out of meaningless suffering.

~ Richard Wright

Be simple, don't carry the baggage the past, open your hands, and let it go.

~ Debasish Mridha

Life is easier when you don't carry baggage from the past.

~ Debasish Mridha

I can't defeat anyone except my past and transcend to be better.

~ Debasish Mridha

Life has existential suffering, we become happy by caring.

~ Debasish Mridha

The secret to happiness, peace, and self-confidence is to forgive yourself and forgive others.

~ Debasish Mridha

When it comes to competing with the best and brightest in whatever your talents or educational skills are, you have to have the confidence within yourself that you are able to achieve.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Don’t give up! Keep trying, your victory is certain.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

With diligent, you will master the act.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Think as if failure is not a possibility.

~ Debasish Mridha

We learn from education, experience and people.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Uncommon success is found on the spiritual plane; you can't get there through common convention or following others. Hard work is not enough; many work slavishly-hard for little reward. Intelligence is insufficient; how many educated and brilliant people there are who fail utterly and completely. Goodness is not enough; how many meek and good souls are tilled into the earth like manure by demigods to fertilize their golden crops. There is something more — it is the unseen essential, and everyone has access to it.

~ Bryant Mcgill

African leaders must desire to liberates it’s people through intensive education (formal and informal). The African people deserve to be educated.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Over the boundary of time,Hope transcends,Desire sings,One verse,One song,And that is the song of happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is there where wants and needs are small, but the desire to give is big.

~ Debasish Mridha

As a teacher, the desire to teach is valuable, but the desire to educate is priceless.

~ Debasish Mridha

The desire to learn is valuable, but the desire for an education is priceless.

~ Debasish Mridha

To be a poet is a love affair, not a desire to dare.

~ Debasish Mridha

To teach, ignite the fire of desire to learn.

~ Debasish Mridha

I began with the desire to speak with the dead.

~ Stephen Greenblatt

Is there an end to learning?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Self enlightenment is the greatest endowment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep reading, Keep learning.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We can find the answers will seek in books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Until our education system is repositioned to take care of the tripartite nature of a human being - head, heart and hand, we cannot make healthy progress as a nation or individuals.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

whenthings turns upside down, think it over and let new come apace

~ Oladosu Feyikogbon

My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, what about the great men with bushy hairs?. He replied, education had made them mad, so study to be wise and sane.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

To survive the daily bumps and bruises that come with living our lives, we all need a gentle and loving home both within and outside of ourselves.

~ Holly Elissa Bruno

Let us give future generations the gift of Earth citizenship by first giving it to ourselves.

~ Ilchi Lee

Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, This is the time of life in which you are to lay the foundations of your future improvement and of your importance among men. If this season is neglected, it will be like cutting off the spring from the year.

~ H.w. Brands

Only education, self-respect and rational qualities will uplift the down-trodden.

~ Periyar E.v. Ramasamy

The fastest and cheapest way to eradicate poverty is not by giving food but by giving hope, love, and education.

~ Debasish Mridha

Africa! Africa! Africa! Africa my motherland!Africa, your people cries for you!Africans must educate their citizens.Africans must reach out to it's people and empower them to build the nation.Africans you are the only people who can liberated your citizens from poverty through education. Africans must pay the price to rebuild the continent.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

An investment in your country’s education pays the best interest.

~ Ishvind Kumar Caleechurn

The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty.

~ David Berliner

We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

We won't let poverty kill educational access & opportunities. We'll kill poverty through education.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

All over the world there are students, teachers and parents that face serious challenges every day. They need help with real problems that have life-altering consequences—and a group of intelligent professionals brought together to advise and educate stakeholders in need of help ought to be able to do so without behaving like a middle school drama queen.

~ Tucker Elliot