Shakuntala Devi Quotes

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

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

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

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The inquiry, knowledge, and belief of truth is the sovereign good of human nature.

You go through life and learn valuable lessons.

You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

Life is like school. You aren't going to be born knowing what to do in every situation. You learn little by little.

Everything is educational.

When you're educated, it allows you to be more worldly. It's more than just what happens in a classroom.

Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.