“Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”
– G.M. Trevelyan
“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”
– Robert Maynard Hutchins
“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”
– Robert Maynard Hutchins
“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. ”
– William Haley
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes
“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”
– Aristotle
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. ”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
– Will Durant
“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.”
– Jim Rohn
“One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.”
-‘Ali ibn Abi Talib (RA)
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
– Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
– Winston Churchill
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill
“The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.”
– Mark Twain
“Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
– John Wooden
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”
– John Wooden
“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”
– Albert Einstein
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
– Albert Einstein
“If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happened. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.”
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care”
– John C. Maxwell
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
– Helen Keller
I wish some friends are like money so that we could hold them up to the light to know if they are real or fake – Emmanuel Jan Jalingo
“Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.”
– Winston Churchill
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.”
– Helen Keller
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
– Albert Einstein
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
– Theodore Roosevelt