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

Education, Fire

56

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

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

Exlpore more Education quotes

"Every child must be taught how to think, read and write."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Education, Child, Think, Read, Write

"Feeding the poor will not eradicate poverty, but feeding the mind with true education will."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Education, Feeding, Poverty, Mind

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Education, Mother, People, College, Ignorance

"Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject...his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

Education, Inspirational, Learning, Advice

"First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law."

Claude Chabrol, French Director

Education, First, Law, Study

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

Calvin Coolidge, American President

Education, Talent, Genius, People

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

Education, Forget

"Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book."

Patti Smith, American Musician

Education, Books, Knowledge, Preservation, Truth

"In prison it must be made rich Library, people must educate their self there. Not to go stupid and more."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Education, Truth, Power, Life

"The authorities of this so-called education take pride in their ship shape structure where they manufacture dumb manikins."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Education, Truth, Regret, Power, Wisdom

Explore more quotes by William Butler Yeats

"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

Dream

"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."

Design

"If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise."

Wisdom

"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."

Man

"Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die."

Love

"When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep."

Dream

"And say my glory was I had such friends."

Friendship

"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."

Friendship

"Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before."

Soul

"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."

Friendship