One Liners on Education
(Also see One Liners on Knowledge)
 

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." -Ben Franklin

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

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you." -B.B. King

"Only the educated are free." -Epictetus

"If you study to remember, you will forget, but, if you study to understand, you will remember." -Anonymous

  "What we must be concerned with is preparation for life, and that preparation is continuing education. Whether it is to earn a living or to rear a family, men and women both need to have the knowledge that enhances their natural talents." -Sister Camilla Kimball

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." -Joseph Addison

"We come to school to learn, not to be taught. All learning is done as we desire it." -John H. Groberg

"What then is education?... Surely gymnastics for the body and music for the mind." -Plato

"The only useful conquests, the only conquests which leave no sort of regret behind, are the conquests one makes over ignorance." -Napoleon I

"When shall we cease to learn? Never, never."  -Brigham Young (JD, 3:203)

"In this world of change, where we are required to make advancement, we must have an increase of intelligence. . There is no stopping place for a man [or woman] of God." -Orson Hyde, Journal of Discourses, 7:151.

"Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life." -Brigham Young

"What you learn after you know it all, is what counts."