John Quincy Adams Quotes

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.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

A man without education is an incomplete being.

Learning has freed more men than all the armies in human history.

Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone. The knowledge of such sciences, however, should be acquired as can profit the peoples of the earth…

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

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

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 means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.

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

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind.

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

Knowledge is one of the wondrous gifts of God. It is incumbent upon everyone to acquire it.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

For me, education was power.

There is nothing more important to improve humanity than education.

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

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

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

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