Quotes
Quotes about Man
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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.
There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.
When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.
With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of life. Barbara Hoberman Levine, Your Body Believes Every Word You Say Learning to love and accept ourselves is basic to human education. So is learning to language emotion in a positive way. Ultimately when we learn to truly love and accept ourselves, we'll be able to live well and love each other and every thing we encounter. -Doc Childre.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?" -Barbara J. Alexander.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
