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The 10 Most Inspiring Education Quotes of All Time

Education quotes from some of the world's greatest minds.

By Courtney Niemann

June 11, 2012

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Dalai Lama

"When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts."

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Frank Lloyd Wright

"You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having."

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Victor Hugo

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

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Aristotle

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

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Eleanor Roosevelt

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

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John Locke

"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."

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Robert Frost

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence."

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John Adams

"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."

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