George Washington Quotes

That knowledge is power – that education is the citadel of liberty – that national glory and prosperity consist in the cultivation of the sciences, in the elevation of the liberal arts, in the extension of the powers of productive industry, are now considered as admitted truths and acknowledged axioms

the cultivation and encouragement of the mechanic and of the elegant arts, the advancement of literature, and the progress of the sciences, ornamental and profound.

The very first instrument for the improvement of the condition of men is knowledge.

No society has ever been great that didn't honor and foster learning.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

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

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

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.

The Virginian Society for the Promotion of Usefull Knowledge

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.

The sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents.

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.

I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.

I've always been the type that's more about academics and technology.

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

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.

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

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

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Having an education is invaluable.

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

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.