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"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."
-- Abraham Lincoln

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

"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
-- Allan Bloom

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

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

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."
-- C.S. Lewis

"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance."
-- Claus Moser

"Only the educated are free."
-- Epictetus

"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
-- Francis Bacon

"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. "
-- Francis Bacon

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history."
-- Henry Ford

"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."
-- John Ruskin

"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."
-- Marcus T. Cicero

"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"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

"Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going agead with it on your own."
-- Robert M. Pirsig

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

"There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
-- Will Rogers

"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education."
-- Wilson Mizner