“Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.com
“If you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”— Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.com
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”— Dr. Seuss, amazon.com
“I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.”— Malala Yousafzai, amazon.com
“I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder an…”— Isaac Asimov, amazon.com
“We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and ‘success’, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.”— Chris Hedges, amazon.com
“Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.”— Donalyn Miller, amazon.com
“A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society…It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force i…”— John Henry Newman, amazon.com
“If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status”— Criss Jami, amazon.com
“A university is a city of ideas, and we're grateful you became citizens of our city.”— Mary Karr, amazon.com
“I feel that the main thing to get out of college is a thirst for knowledge. College should teach you how to be curious. Most people think that college is the end of education, but it isn't. The ceremony of giving you the diploma is called commencement. And that means you are fit to commence learning…”— Vincent Price, amazon.com