Good Quotes

Good questions outrank easy answers.

~ Paul Samuelson

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

~ Zaha Hadid

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.

~ Thad Cochran

It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise.

~ Sebastian Coe

As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.

~ Ben Bernanke

I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.

~ Barbara Boxer

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

~ Alphonso Jackson

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

~ Carter G. Woodson

At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security.

~ Ruben Hinojosa

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

~ Sandra Day O'connor

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

~ Twyla Tharp

I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.

~ Damian Marley

A good education gives you confidence to stick up your hand for anything - whether it is the job you want, or the bloke. And the more you stick up your hand, the better your chances are that you will get what you want.

~ Kate Reardon

The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.

~ Dan Shechtman

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

~ Mary Wortley Montagu

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

~ Karl Rove

Girls' education is no silver bullet. Iran and Saudi Arabia have both educated girls but refused to empower them, so both remain mired in the past. But when a country educates and unleashes women, those educated women often become force multipliers for good.

~ Nicholas Kristof

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

~ Ann Plato

Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.

~ Malcolm X

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

~ Stephen Covey

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

~ Alan K. Simpson

I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.

~ Mitt Romney

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.

~ J. C. Watts

The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.

~ Pallam Raju

It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect that our time will sustain itself if we don't do a better job on issues like education... It's absolutely the case that the low cost of college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid I was able to receive made my education possible.

~ Wendy Davis

I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.

~ Jack O'connell

I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.

~ Mike Mccue

In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.

~ Ahmed Zewail

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

~ John Grogan

I had a very good sexual education. My mother was very advanced in that regard. She conveyed to me the sense of reverence and wonder about my body and the powers of my sexuality not only to give life, but also to be a whole person and to enjoy pleasure. It was put to me as an almost holy act.

~ Gioconda Belli

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

~ Gail Godwin

Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances.

~ Levi Woodbury

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

~ Michel De Montaigne

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

~ Margaret Thatcher

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

~ Wilson Mizner

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

~ Francis Bacon

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.

~ Charles Stanley

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

~ John Cheever

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

~ Francis Quarles

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

~ Aeschylus