Educational Sayings

416 sayings found from 416 authors

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

— Saint Paul c. 62-64 CE
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Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.

— Guru Nanak c. 15th-16th century CE
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

— Galileo Galilei Approximate
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To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

— Nicolaus Copernicus Approximate
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

— Alan Turing 1954
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Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE (attributed later)
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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.

— Carl Linnaeus c. 1730s
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A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

— Hippocrates c. 460-370 BCE
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The wise man will not be content with the knowledge of things as they are, but will seek to know how they came to be so.

— William Harvey c. 1650s (attributed)
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I'm a public intellectual, but I'm also a street intellectual. I'm rooted in the streets, in the hood, with the people.

— Cornel West 2016
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The vulnerability of the body is not a problem to be solved, but a condition of human life to be acknowledged and embraced.

— Martha Nussbaum 2004
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Hierarchy is not a human invention. It's a biological reality.

— Jordan Peterson 2016
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The agricultural revolution was history's biggest fraud.

— Yuval Noah Harari 2014
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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, 19th century
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I have been able to teach many things to this nation, but I haven't been able to teach how to be lackeys.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. 1930s
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We are not shooting enough professors.

— Vladimir Lenin Early 20th century
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You are pitiful, isolated individuals! You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!

— Leon Trotsky 1917
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Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.

— Jawaharlal Nehru Unknown
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Mandatory education is a coercive education that suppresses freedom. To impose specific teaching materials is a dictatorial act.

— Muammar Gaddafi 1975
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My conscience is clear.

— Pol Pot 1997
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