“Action is the real measure of intelligence.” ~~ Napoleon Hill
Filed Under: Intelligence, Napoleon Hill
This collection of education quotes was inspired by the following quote from William Butler Yeats:
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
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“Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.” ~~ Albert Camus
“It is better to be wrong than to be vague.” ~~ Freeman Dyson
“Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn’t sign your name you’d have to pay cash. ” ~~ Rita Mae Brown
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.” ~~ Samuel Johnson
“Learning to teach is a bigger job than universities, schools, experience, or personal disposition alone can accomplish.” ~~ Sharon Feiman-Nemser
“All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.” ~~ Aristotle
“A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.” ~~ Linnaeus
