100 Importance of Education Quotes to Empower You - Catalyst

100 Importance of Education Quotes to Empower You

Education is undoubtedly, a key to gaining success in life. Gaining knowledge is a form of empowerment that makes you more confident to take on challenges. Education is a foundation for leading a better life.  

Education not only empowers but also broadens your worldview and helps you understand the nature of things better.  

These 100 quotes on education cover why education is just so important. 

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

Nelson Mandela

“The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”  

Dr. Seuss

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress in every society, in every family.” 

Kofi Annan 

“Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.”  

Claude Bernard

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”  

William Butler Yeats

“With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.”  

Malala Yousafzai

“A good education is a foundation for a better future.”  

Elizabeth Warren

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.” 

Mortimer Adler

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”  

Voltaire

“Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”  

Peter Brougham

“Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning.”

Anton Chekhov 

“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.”

Steven Wright

“The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.”  

Malala Yousafzai

“Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.”  

John Holt

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”  

Malcolm X

“What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.”  

Chuck Grassley

“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.”  

Chinese Proverb

“They cannot stop me. I will get my education if it is in the home, school, or any place.”  

Malala Yousafzai

“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”  

Anthony D’angelo

“Education is the art of making man ethical.”  

George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Education is one thing no one can take away from you.”  

Elin Nordegren

“Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.”

Louis L’Amour 

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”  

Carl Rogers

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”  

C.S. Lewis

“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”  

Plato

“A mans mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.”   

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”  

Herbert Spencer

“Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.”  

Vera Nazarian

“Education should light a fire within us to improve us and help our world.”  

Sarah Joseph

“A child without education is like a bird without wings.” 

Tibetan Proverb

 “Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.”  

William H. Gray III

“The learning process continues until the day you die.”   

Kirk Douglas

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

Malcolm Forbes 

“When you educate a man in mind and not in morals, you educate a menace to society.”  

Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Intelligence plus character that is the goal of true education.”

Martin Luther King Jr. 

“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

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”

Thomas Jefferson 

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”   

Albert Einstein

“When asked how much-educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, “As much as the living are to the dead.” 

Diogenes Laertius

“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.” 

Muriel Spark

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

Gilbert Chesterton

“The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.”  

Malala Yousafzai

“Education is the key that unlocks the golden door to freedom.” 

George Washington Carver

“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.”  

Brigham Young

“I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.”  

Ann Brashares

“Education is never as expensive as ignorance.”  

Anonymous

“Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life.“   

W. E. B. du Bois

“Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.”  

Anatole France

“The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.”  

Jack Nicholson

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”

Albert Einstein 

“It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.”  

Agnes Repplierg

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”   

Albert Einstein

“It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.” 

Cormac McCarthy

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”  

Benjamin Franklin

“Learning is not compulsory… Neither is survival.”  

W. Edwards Demin

“The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.”

George Eastman 

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

Malcolm X 

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”  

Aristotle

“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”  

Og Mandino

“The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.”  

Jean Piaget

“Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.” 

John Hersey

“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”  

John F. Kennedy

“Education is too important to be left solely to educators.”  

Francis Keppel

“The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.” 

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

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

Abigail Adams

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” 

John Dewey

“Education is the mother of leadership.”

Wendell Willkie 

“Education is the vaccine of violence.”  

Edward James Olmos

“They know enough who know how to learn.”  

Henry Adams

“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. education beats the beauty and the youth.”  

Chanakya

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”  

Henry Ford

“Education is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to open children’s hearts and minds to the unbelievable wonder of the universe.”  

Sir Anthony Seldon

“It is better to learn late than never.”  

Publilius Syrus

“Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.” 

John Adams

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”

Edward Everett  

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”  

Maimonides

“He who opens a school door closes a prison.”  

Victor Hugo

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.” 

Plato

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”   

Confucius

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”  

Marian Wright Edelman

“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.”

William S. Burroughs 

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”  

Robert Frost

“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.”  

Walt Disney

“When girls are educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous.”   

Michelle Obama

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

Aristotle

“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.”

Alfred Mercier 

“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”  

Mahatma Gandhi

“The purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”  

Sydney J. Harris

“Education is everything- education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.”  

Ciara

“Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Education is the ability to meet life’s situations.”  

Dr. John G. Hibben

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”  

Mark Twain

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”  

Walter Cronkite

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”  

Will Durant

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

Jim Rohn

“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”  

Michel Legran

“The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.”

Mary McLeod Bethune 

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

Plutarch 

“A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.”

Mark Twain 

“Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.”

Eric From 

Wrapping up 

Education is the key to empowerment. We hope these education quotes inspired you and gave you a different perspective. 

If you enjoyed this collection, check out our quotes about self-confidence, attitude, and life

Dani Rhys
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