Quotes About Education, Sayings About Books

"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power
to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists,
to make his life full, significant and interesting."
-- Aldous Huxley

"If you want to be original, question all truths handed down to you."
-- Niles Eldridge

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
William Butler Yeats

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island."
-- Walt Disney

"Only the educated are free."
-- Epictetus

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen
and thinking what nobody has thought."
-- Albert Gyorgyi

"Education is the ability to meet life's situations."
-- Dr. John G. Hibben

"Books are the compass and telescopes and sextants and charts
which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life."
-- Jesse Lee Bennett

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes."
-- Desiderius Erasmus

"Book: A garden carried in a pocket."
--Arabian Proverb

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."
Northrup Frye

" 'Tis the good reader that makes the good book."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People say life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
-- Logan Pearsall Smith

"Beware the man of one book."
-- Latin Proverb

"No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer
than that blown by the successful teacher."
-- William Osler

"A teacher affects eternity; he can
never tell where his influence stops."
-- Henry Brooks Adams

"The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires."
-- William A. Ward

"Teaching is not a lost art, but
the regard for it is a lost tradition."
-- Jacques Barzun

"Teaching is the greatest act of optimism."
-- Colleen Wilcox

"Teachers open the door, but
you must enter by yourself."
-- Chinese Proverb