Famous Quotes

"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."

Oliver Wendell Holmes 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

• "Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

• "Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."

• "Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future."

• "The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

• "I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!"