Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:My son first wanted to go to Stanford, which I thought was O.K. The weather is pretty good, and it's a fairly short drive to the beach. But it wouldn't be as good as let's say, Pepperdine, which is in Malibu. And he said, 'Dad, what about the education?' I said, 'Clearly, I failed as a parent.'[Larry Ellison] Quote:I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.[Mark Twain] Quote:A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Genius without education is like silver in the mine.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:I believe one of the reasons so many do not get a higher education is the fear of their parents that they will lose more morally than they will receive mentally.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.[Aristotle] Quote:The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:The giving of love is an education in itself.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.[Adam Smith] Quote:I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live.[John Adams] Quote:The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.[Plato] Quote:The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. [Cicero] Quote:Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. [Cicero] Quote:Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. [Colette] Quote:The highest result of education is tolerance. [Helen Keller] Quote:Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. [Thomas H. Huxley] Quote:To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. [Cyril Connolly] Quote:Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education. [Dr. David M. Burns] Definitions of: educationDefinition: The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education. |
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