Some men never recover from education.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Our whole life is but one great school; from the cradle to the grave we are all learners; nor will our education be finished until we die.

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.

A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.