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.

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

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.

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

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

The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.