Top 100 Education Wise Quotes
#3. A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#8. Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
#9. Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
John Ray
#14. You ought to stop everything and write the sacred-words as its flashes in your mind.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#16. It made me alert, like someone had scrubbed mint all over my skin. I'd walk into that stinking, miserable prison and for the next three hours, a wise and beautiful woman would float out of the wreckage of my life, and her words and thoughts and tiniest movements were precious.
Jennifer Egan
#18. An intelligent person looks for problems to solve. The wise person looks for solutions.
Debasish Mridha
#24. A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
Meat Loaf
#25. Knowledge, you may get from books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it.
Ismat Ahmed Shaikh
#28. I am honoured to join education innovators like Ms. Vicky Colbert, Dr. Madhav Chavan, and Sir Fazle Hasan Abed as the fourth WISE Prize for Education Laureate. I accept this prize on behalf of the million girls Camfed is committed to supporting through secondary education.
Ann Cotton
#29. The desire to win a war is expensive, but the desire to win with wisdom is wise.
Debasish Mridha
#30. I think we should see whether we are wise trying to educate everybody to a high standard the way we are trying to do now. There has to be a high level of education so everybody is literate, but whether university education is necessary for everyone is open to question.
Robertson Davies
#32. Education comes from living life, following passions, accessing information, observing, reflecting, and being inspired by wise and courageous elders in the community.
Claire Aumonier
#33. On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom of many an ancient philosopher.
Henry David Thoreau
#35. Modern Education may make one intelligent but not wise. Wisdom comes from character, social consciousness, self awareness, human values, conscience that helps us know what is right and wrong and independent will that helps us to choose right over wrong.
Jeroninio Almeida
#36. Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
John Adams
#37. Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
Natassia Malthe
#38. He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.
Archibald Alexander Hodge
#41. How have I never noticed she only required praise to find me acceptable? wondered Sophronia, not quite realizing that this, too, was a mark of her new education. Many was the lady whose belief in another's sound judgment was based solely upon that other judging her favorably.
Gail Carriger
#44. The path to wisdom is paved with humility.
Tim Fargo
#46. If people institute wrong institutions, wrong institutions do not just produce wrong people, but wrong people who understand and accept mediocrity as an institution
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#47. A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#48. University makes you knowledgeable;
the university of life makes you wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#51. I would much rather be considered wise than smart. But, I still think it is wise to get an education.
Destiny Booze
#53. To be knowledgeable, learn new things every day; to be wise, unlearn things that you learn with wit and love.
Debasish Mridha
#55. If for us culture means museum and library and open house and art gallery, for them it meant the activities and amenities of everyday life ... The rift is ... between "folk" culture, where the unschooled can be wise, and print culture, which enslaved the other senses to the eye.
Nick Joaquin
#56. All the calculus, quantum mechanics and languages in the world are worthless pieces of information, if they are not brought to the service of the society.
Abhijit Naskar
#57. Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.
Laozi
#58. To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
William James
#59. The yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown! ... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?
Frances Wright
#60. It's better to live in hell with the wise than in heaven with the wicked.
Debasish Mridha
#62. School education will grant you a job. Development in life will grant you wise brain.
Sameh Elsayed
#64. Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.
Thiruvalluvar
#67. Most fools think he is the wisest person but the most wise person thinks he is a fool.
Debasish Mridha
#68. Sharpen your mind with the beauty of knowledge and the tears of experience to be wise.
Debasish Mridha
#69. Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#73. Knowledge is worth nothing, until it is put to practice.
Abhijit Naskar
#74. The right of education of the female sex, as it is in a manner everywhere neglected, so it ought to be generally lamented. Most in this depraved later age think a woman learned and wise enough if she can distinguish her husband's bed from another's.
Hannah Woolley
#75. Be wise and resist pleasures. A fool always seeks pleasures.
Debasish Mridha
#77. In the pursuit of knowledge, we know God, the source of knowledge and wisdom.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#79. While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.
Ben Carson
#81. Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.
Confucius
#82. A man is wise not because of his intelligence, but because of his understanding and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#87. Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Cato The Elder
#90. By 20, you should be smart. By 30, you should be strong. By 40, you should be rich. By 50, you should be wise. But if you are smart, strong, rich and wise, you don't need any age limits.
Santosh Kalwar
#91. Without any formal personal finance education or trustworthy resources to tell them otherwise, the majority of people in the 18-to-24-year-old age bracket do not know how to use credit effectively, tackle debt or make wise decisions when it comes to spending.
Alexa Von Tobel
#92. A castle of defense, a bastion of might
A fort where the wise teach the young to fight
An armory of weapons, sharp as hooks
Are wrapped in leather and shelved as books
Shannon Hale
