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“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.”

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.”

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.”

“Education is the best provision for old age.”

“The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth.”

“There is, between the sexes, a law of incessant reciprocal action, of which God avails himself in the constitution of the family, when He permits brothers and sisters to nestle about the same hearthstone. Its ministration is essential to the best educational results. Our own educational institutions should rest upon this divine basis.”

“No one can take it away from you.”

“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”

“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”

“The human mind is our fundamental resource.”

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”

“There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.”

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

“You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.”

“Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.”

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”

“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.”