Simon Bolivar 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.

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

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

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

Without education we can’t achieve anything.

I'm all for education.

Nothing substitutes for a great education.

If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education. It has intrinsic and indestructible merits. It holds the welfare of mankind in its embrace, as the protecting arms of a mother hold her infant to her bosom. The very ignorance and selfishness which obstructs its path are the strongest arguments for its promotion, for it furnishes the only adequate means for their removal.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

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

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.

Few things are as essential as education.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Having an education is invaluable.

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

I'm a big believer in education, period.

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

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

The value of a good education has never left me.

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.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.