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Only the educated are free.

— Epictetus

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

— Victor Hugo

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

— Khalil Gibran

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

— Socrates

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding.

— Immanuel Kant

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

— Robert Frost

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

— Aristotle

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

— Albert Einstein

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

— Benjamin Franklin

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

— Benjamin Franklin

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

— Winston Churchill

Let knowledge grow from more to more, but more of reverence in us dwell.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

— Mark Twain

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

— Rabindranath Tagore

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Aristotle

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

— Samuel Johnson

The highest result of education is tolerance.

— Helen Keller

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Aristotle

Learning never exhausts the mind.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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