Quotes about Wisdom
A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.
— Wendell Berry
The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.
— Martin Luther
I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.
— Robert Frost
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.
— TB Joshua
The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents.
— John Milton
Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle.
— Anonymous
Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.
— John Milton