Dan Quayle Quotes

Education came to be one of the great preoccupations, enlightenment was viewed as the greatest single opportunity to escape .... Parents made untold sacrifice to secure learning for their children that they had been denied.

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

Everybody in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have.

We should all have the opportunity to at least get a basic education and feel that you are worthy of something in life.

If you are conscious to yourself that you possess more knowledge upon some subject than others of your standing, reflect that have had greater opportunity …

The savage and women are not what we call intellectual because they are not taught to know and manipulate the materials of knowledge.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste was the slogan, but now it's 95 and it's don't forget the Trojan.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages.

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.

A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.

Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

Education forms the common mind.

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.