Favorite Quotations ~ Education & Learning

Watercolor representing learning and community Education is a lifelong spark—a chance to ignite curiosity, build compassion, and awaken the world within. These quotes celebrate learning not as a duty, but as a joyful unfolding of truth. ✨

“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” ~ William Butler Yeats

The difference between education and intelligence is that intelligence will make you a good living. ~ Charles Kettering

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

A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother. ~ Charles Schulz

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. ~ W. Edwards Deming

Education, in the broadest and truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition. ~ George Washington Carver

I do not much believe in education. Each man ought to be his own model, however frightful that may be. ~ Albert Einstein

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. ~ Robert Frost

All of life is a constant education. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation. ~ John F. Kennedy

When I learn something new—and it happens every day—I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest. ~ Bill Moyers

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another. ~ Marva Collins

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. ~ Eartha Kitt

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; A student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily. ~ Alan Watts

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~ Edward Everett Hale

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher. ~ Ken Keyes