Patrick Ness Quotes

Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I learned nothing while I was in school.

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.

Education does not necessarily make one wise?

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

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew.

Going to our school is an education in itself which is not to be confused with actually getting an education.

There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

Education is suffering from narration sickness.

Schools teach ignorance.

I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.

The problem with education is school.

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

Not all schooling is education nor all education, schooling.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

Education is only second to nature.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.