World Quotes

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

~ Malcolm X

That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

~ Gaston Caperton

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

~ Jerome Bruner

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

~ Muhammad Yunus

Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.

~ Quincy Jones

If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.

~ Wendy Kopp

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

~ Karl Kraus

The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.

~ George Eastman

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.

~ Mike Rogers

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

Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.

~ Adam Braun

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

~ Steve Case

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

~ Walter Annenberg

If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.

~ Nicholas Negroponte

A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities.

~ Anant Agarwal

There are so many people around the world in need of high-quality education and really starving for education.

~ Daphne Koller

In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of the world. That makes it hard to find meaning in education.

~ David Christian

It will be impossible for us to eradicate HIV as long as any corner of the world is cut off from the education and services that we know helps stop the spread of this disease.

~ Alex Newell

This is a universal human dream - that brains, not brawn, will rule - and the fact that America has the world's finest institutions of higher education may be our greatest single national asset.

~ David Ignatius

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

~ Abu Bakr

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

~ Heinrich Heine

Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real people; including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.

~ Bob Barr

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

~ Al Green

When children do not have three square meals a day, a proper education, and at least one adult who they know loves and is committed to them, it's very unlikely they will grow up to be productive citizens of the world.

~ Stephanie March

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

~ Nicholas M. Butler

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

~ Socrates

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

~ Archimedes

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

~ Marlo Thomas

I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think we'll appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didn't know anything about other religions 100 years ago.

~ Ray Kurzweil

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

~ Yogi Berra

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

~ Francis Of Assisi

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow.

~ Stephen Colbert

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

~ James M. Barrie

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

~ Baltasar Gracián

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

At 17 years old, STG took me under its wing and shared its resources and wisdom with me, even allowing me to take part in a show at the Edinburgh Festival. Without STG and the Ramshorn Theatre, I would not have found access to the world of drama that I later made my profession.

~ Peter Capaldi

Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.

~ Pankaj Mishra

You can only make sense of the online world by going offline and by getting the wisdom and emotional clarity to know how to make the best use of the Internet.

~ Pico Iyer

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

~ Josh Billings