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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. ~Plato

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ~Albert Einstein

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. ~Albert Einstein

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ~Oscar Wilde

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. ~Abraham

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~Robert Frost

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. ~Mark Twain
 

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ~Aristotle

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. ~Benjamin Franklin

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler Yeats

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. ~Anatole France

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. ~Carl Rogers

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. ~Oscar Wilde

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~Robert Green Ingersoll

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~John Dewey

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ~Theodore Roosevelt

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~Will Durant

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.  ~George Washington Carver

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories. ~Ray Bradbury