Quotes related to Proverbs 1:7
No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
— Lou Holtz
America had once ruled the earth, he said. But it had never bothered to educate its people. So now it was a country of ignorant peasants, a noisy and stupid rabble.
— Lydia Millet
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
— Madeleine L'Engle
People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Most of the great universities of the West were founded with the conviction that theology is the queen of the disciplines. (...) Now, in the latter part of the twentieth century, that tradition has almost disappeared.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
A child miseducated is a child lost.
— John F. Kennedy
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
— Publilius Syrus
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
— John F. Kennedy
Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.
— Martin Luther
A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
— Samuel Johnson
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
— Samuel Johnson