If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be. (Thomas Jefferson)

The only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this. (John Stuart Mill)

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. (Henry Peter Brougham)

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. (Albert Einstein)

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead. (Aristotle)

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. (Mahatma Gandhi

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
(Mortimer J. Adler)

Seek knowledge [even] though it be in China. (Prophet Muhammad)

The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr. (Prophet Muhammad)

To acquire knowledge is binding upon all Muslims, whether male or female. (Prophet Muhammad)

He who travels in the search of knowledge, to him God shows the way of Paradise. (Prophet Muhammad)

Acquire knowledge, because he who acquires it, in the way of the Lord, performs an act of piety; who speaks of it praises the Lord; who seeks it, adores God, who dispenses instruction in it, bestows alms; and who imparts it to its fitting objects, performs an act of devotion to God. Knowledge enables its possessor to distinguish what is forbidden from what is not; lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our companion in solitude, our companion, when bereft of friends; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is our ornament in the company of friends; it serves as an armor against our enemies. With knowledge the creatures of Allah rises to the heights of goodness and to noble position, associates with the sovereigns in this world and attains the perfection of happiness in the next. (Prophet Muhammad)

Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to truth. (Thomas Jefferson)

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. (Joseph Joubert)

They know enough who know how to learn. (Henry Brooks Adams)

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who 'prepare for it today.' (Malcolm X)

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show (teach) him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. (Chinese proverb)

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. (Voltaire)

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it—-this is knowledge. (Confucius)

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. (Mark Twain)

The unexamined life is not worth living. (Socrates)

A mind is like a parachute. It functions only when it is open. (Anonymous)

Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other. (Edmund Burke)

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. (Anonymous)
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

The critical habit of thought, if usual in society, will pervade all it’s mores because it is a way of taking up the problems of life. Men educated in it cannot be stampeded by stump orators ... They are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain. They can wait for evidence and weigh evidence, uninfluenced by the emphasis or confidence with which assertions are made on one side or the other. They can resist appeals to their dearest prejudices and all kinds of cajolery. Education in the critical faculty is the only education of which it can be truly said that it makes good citizens. (William Graham Sumner)

Every person has something to teach me.... and as soon as I accept that, I open myself to truly listening.” (Catherine Doucette)

A little knowledge is dangerous. (Anonymous)

Those who don't remember the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it. (George Santayana)

The heroic mind...one able to see the world whole, not one in which knowledge is divided from wisdom, and politics from principle. (Giambattista Vico)

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninty-nine percent perspiration. (Thomas Edison)

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. (Laurence Sterne)

There are no secrets that time does not reveal. (Jean Racine)

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them. (Ralph Nichols)

The art of conversation consists as much in listening politely as in talking agreeably. (Atwell)

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit
atrocities. (Voltaire)

Teaching is the highest form of understanding. (Aristotle)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." (Galileo Galilei)

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach him how to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. (Chinese proverb)

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes destiny. (Anonymous)

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance (Derek Bok)

If knowledge is power then ignorance certainly cannot be bliss- James W. Loewen

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. (William Penn)

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
(Confucius)

Books are the gardens of the learned. (Ali ibn Abi Talib)

The man of learning is alive even after he is dead. The man of ignorance is dead even while he is alive. (Ali ibn Abi Talib)

Knowledge which remains only on your tongue is very superficial. The intrinsic value of knowledge is that you act upon it. (Ali ibn Abi Talib)