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" Nine tenths of education is encouragement. "

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" By working to ensure we live in a society that prioritizes public safety, education, and innovation, entrepreneurship can thrive and create a better world for all of us to live in. "

" The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. "

" I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.' "

Samuel L. Jackson

" Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement. "

" The mere imparting of information is not education. "

Carter G. Woodson

" A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me. "

" It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education. "

Marjane Satrapi

" Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. "

" We all know that education unlocks the door of opportunity for the young. "

Gordon B. Hinckley

" Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. "

" The system in Sweden is great because you get free healthcare and free education; someone who doesn't have a lot of money can become a doctor or lawyer. There's good paternity and maternity leave - the U.S. is probably the only civilised country in the world that doesn't give parents anything. "

Alexander Skarsgard

" The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price. "

Higher Education

" To my mind, the education of children - girl children, specifically - is what really creates an enlightened society. It creates a liberal society. "

" I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world. "

" It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. "

" Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened. "

" Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. "

" Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in. "

" The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values. "

William Ralph Inge

" The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them. "

" The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. "

John W. Gardner

" Education is all a matter of building bridges. "

" Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars. "

" It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. "

Harvey S. Firestone

" Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated. "

" Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life. "

" Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children. "

" Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education. "

" I went to a regular school... education kept me sane. "

" Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero