A college degree is a social certificate, not a proof of competence.

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.

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

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

Education—a debt due from present to future generations.

Make human nature your study wherever you reside—whatever the religion or the complexion, study their hearts.

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.

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

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.

Knowledge itself is power.

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