Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Seek education from the cradle to the grave.

All learning is in the learner, not in the teacher.

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

I think investing in a good education has been key for me, although the investment was more in time than money.

I learn every day, and I know that I will never stop learning.

Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind a slight tincture, but a thorough and perfect dye. And if we perceive no evident change and improvement, it would be better to leave it alone; learning is a dangerous weapon, and apt to wound its master if it be wielded by a feeble hand, and by one not well acquainted with its use.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

Education forms the common mind.

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over... What you first gain from them is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you 'line up' your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instil, and modify to some slight degree their mass.

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

Education is the single most important job of the human race.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing?