Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Education is fundamental to any success. That's your baseboard.

The highest priority you can have is education.

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

Reading is the basics for all learning.

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.

Education is the key. With a really good education, you have a much broader view of the world. Well-educated people can seek help for themselves. They can help others.

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.

... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance--no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and exclude it from the vast field of useful and scientific knowledge. O, had I received the advantages of early education, my ideas would, ere now, have expanded far and wide; but, alas! I possess nothing but moral capability--no teachings but the teachings of the Holy Spirit.

So few grow, because so few study.

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.

The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.

Education is one of the most important tools that you can give somebody.

Education is our passport to the future.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production; to make mind master over matter.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.

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.

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.