80 Inspirational And Motivational Education Quotes

Education shines the light of knowledge in us and brings us to the pinnacle of progress in life.

Today I am sharing the top 80 inspirational and motivational education quotes on education from famous people like Chanakya, Albert Einstein, Nelson Mandela.

If you are a student who needs inspiration for education, or go on to inspire your students for learning. Then read the Education Quotes given below and share it with everyone.

Education Quotes :

“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.” ~George Santayana
“If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.” ~Cornelius Vanderbilt
“Good teaching comes from good people.” ~Parker Palmer
“Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.” ~Amit Ray
“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” ~Anthony J. D’Angelo
“Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.” ~Anthony J. D’Angelo
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ~W B Yeats
“The most important thing is that the natural will of the child be broken.” ~August Hermann Francke
“Man must develop his tendency towards the good.” ~Immanuel Kant
“Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.” ~Amit Ray

Quotes About Education :

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” ~Sydney J. Harris
“A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.” ~A. Bartlett Giamatti
“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” ~Diogenes
“Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.” ~G. M. Trevelyan
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.” ~Plato
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” ~Albert Einstein
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.” ~Robert Green Ingersoll
“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” ~G K Chesterton
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” ~Will Durant
“If little else, the brain is an educational toy.” ~Tom Robbins

Quotes On Education :

“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.” ~Bertrand Russell
“Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.” ~John F. Kennedy
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” ~Herbert Spencer
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” ~Aristotle
“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” ~Malcolm X
“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” ~George Washington Carver
“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” ~Chanakya
“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” ~Daniel J. Boorstin
“Education is the movement from darkness to light.” ~Allan Bloom
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” ~G K Chesterton

Education Quotes For Students :

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ~Nelson Mandela
“In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.” ~Plato
“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.” ~John Dewey
“Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.” ~Democritus
“Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.” ~Zhuangzi
“Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” ~The Bible
“If you give a man a fish he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish you do him a good turn.” ~Anne Isabella Ritchie
“Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.” ~Horace Mann
“Example has more followers than reason.” ~Christian Nestell Bovee
“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.” ~Mark Twain

Importance Of Education Quotes :

“Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.” ~Robert Frost
“If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.” ~Clarence Darrow
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” ~John Dewey
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” ~Victor Hugo
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.” ~Joseph Addison
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” ~C. S. Lewis
“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.” ~Muriel Spark
“Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” ~Martin Luther King
“A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.” ~James Baldwin
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” ~Socrates

Inspirational Education Quotes :

“Education is all a matter of building bridges.” ~Ralph Ellison
“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” ~Albert Einstein
“The highest result of education is tolerance.” ~Helen Keller
“The best education will not immunize a person against corruption by power.” ~Eric Hoffer
“Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.” ~Hosea Ballou
“Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.” ~Philip Wylie
“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” ~Theodore Roosevelt
“Education makes a greater difference between man and man, than nature has made between man and brute.” ~John Adams
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” ~Aristotle
“The educated don’t get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.” ~Tom Heehler

Famous Education Quotes :

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” ~Isaac Asimov
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ~Jim Rohn
“The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.” ~Alexandra K. Trenfor
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” ~Edward Everett
“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” ~Malcolm Forbes
“It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.” ~James Baldwin
“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” ~John F. Kennedy
“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
“Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.” ~Robert Kiyosaki
“Education is one of the blessings of life and one of its necessities.” ~Malala Yousafzai

Education Quotes In English :

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” ~B. F. Skinner
“Education is no substitute for intelligence.” ~Frank Herbert
“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” ~Robert M. Hutchins
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” ~Plutarch
“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.” ~Victor Hugo
“Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.” ~George H. W. Bush
“The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.” ~Wendell Phillips
“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.” ~Harold Howe
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” ~Confucius
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ~Nelson Mandel