Quotes By Catogory
“Education is the key that unlocks the golden door to freedom.”
—George Washington Carver
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself”.
―John Dewey
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it”.
―Aristotle
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows”.
―Sydney J. Harris
“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow”.
―Anthony J. D’Angelo
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire”.
―William Butler Yeats
“I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out”.
―Ellen Ochoa
“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”
―Clay P. Bedford
“A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read”.
―Mark Twain
“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next”.
―Abraham Lincoln
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
―Henry B. Adams
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
―Nelson Mandela
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education”.
―Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.”
―Chinese Proverb
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
―Martin Luther King Jr.
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”
―B.B. King
“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.”
―Chinese Proverb
“What sculpture is to a block of marble; education is to the human soul.”
―Joseph Addison
“Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”
―Peter Brougham
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
―Mahatma Gandhi
“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
―Brigham Young
“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
―Benjamin Franklin
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change”.
―Carl Rogers
“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives”.
―Robert M. Hutchins
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change.”
―Carl Rogers
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance”.
―Will Durant
“A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.”
―Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence”.
―Robert Frost
“If education is expensive, will you prefer to wallow in ignorance and abandon the much-desired holistic education?”
―B. S. O. Kpechi
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
―Malcolm X
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army”.
―Edward Everett
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
―Epictetus
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.”
―Plato
“Educating the mind towards the reality of life is as difficult as piercing through the mental slavery”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
―Maimonides
“Dissolve your ego before it dissolves yourself.”
―Maxime Lagacé.
“Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems”.
―Paramahansa Yogananda
“When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it’s absurd. But it’s tragic at the same time”.
―Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.”
―Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Not everything is about you,”
―Clary said furiously
“Possibly,” Jace said, “but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.”
―Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
“We must go beyond the constant clamour of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul”.
―Deepak Chopra
“Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it”.
―Colin Powell
“You must practice seeing yourself with a little distance, cultivating the ability to get out of your own head. Detachment is a sort of natural ego antidote. It’s easy to be emotionally invested and infatuated with your own work. Any and every narcissist can do that. What is rare is not raw talent, skill, or even confidence, but humility, diligence, and self-awareness.”
―Ryan Holiday
“Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time”.
―Nikki Sixx
“The ego is not master in its own house”.
―Sigmund Freud
“Ego is the enemy- giving us wicked feedback, disconnected from reality. It’s defensive, precisely when we cannot afford to be defensive. It blocks us from improving by telling us that we don’t need to improve. Then we wonder why we don’t get the results we want, why others are better and why their success is more lasting.”
―Ryan Holiday
“The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders’ growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing”.
―Ken Blanchard
“Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life”.
―Eckhart Tolle
“What I’ve found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion”.
―Ryan Holiday
“Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution”.
―Robert H. Schuller
“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”
―Rainer Maria Rilke
“Leadership is not a popularity contest; it’s about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title”.
―Robin S. Sharma
“The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, personal and family history, belief systems, and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.”
―Eckhart Tolle
“The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention”.
―Alan Watts
“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?”
―Shannon L. Alder
“Ego is its own worst enemy. It hurts the ones we love too. Our families and friends suffer for it. So do our customers, fans, and clients. A critic of napoleon nailed it when remarking: ‘He [Napoleon] despises the nation whose applause he seeks.’ He couldn’t help but see the French people as pieces to be manipulated, people he had to be better than, people who, unless they were totally, unconditionally supportive of him, were against him.”
―Ryan Holiday
“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind”.
―William Blake
“Destroy your illusions so you can see reality. Destroy your fears so you can take risks. Destroy your ego so you can see life.”
―Maxime Lagacé
“Having the sense of ‘free will’ shouldn’t make us behave instinctively, thereby losing the sense of deliberation and reflection”.
―B.S.O. Kpechi
“The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist”.
―Eckhart Tolle
“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”
―Robert Frost
“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you”.
—C. S. LEWIS
“Quote of the month”
“Until our mindset changes, nothing will ever change. It’s easy to unshackle the physical chains of slavery, than that of the chains of mental slavery”
BSO Kpechi
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