J. D. Salinger Quotes

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Every educated person is a future enemy.

To me the offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet. That I haven’t understood enough. That I can’t know enough. That I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom… Those who tell you that you can only live by accepting an absolute authority: don’t think of that as a gift. Think of it as a poison chalice. Push it aside, however tempting it is. Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.

People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don't know what the word 'education' means... 'Educo' means to bring out.

To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

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.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

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.

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

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Having an education is invaluable.

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

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

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

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

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

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.