Famous Quotes

"It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. on Education

More quotes about Education

• "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

  Nelson Mandela on Education

• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

  Albert Einstein on Education

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

  Aristotle on Education

• "My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

  Maya Angelou on Education

• "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 on Education

More quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

• "Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God."

• "A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born."

• "I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy."

• "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."

• "A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."