Educational Quotes & Insights

This page includes educational quotes, insights and thoughts of distinguished philosophers and thinkers, to know more about each philosopher click the assigned link.

                                  
                                      Gibran Kahlil Gibran 


The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the 


house of wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your 


mind.  12/3/2012




Faith is knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.


30/3/2012


Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as 


by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to 


you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.


8/4/2012







      Zeno The Stoic




The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.


13/3/2012


All things are parts of one single system, which is called Nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with Nature. 
30/3/2012


Among the virtues some are primary, and some are subordinate to these. The following are primary: Wisdom, courage, justice and temperance.
8/4/2012

Annonymous

He who knows not and knows not he knows not: is a fool -- 

                                                                                             shun him. 

He who knows not and knows he knows not: can be taught -- 

                                                                                         teach him. 

He who knows and knows not he knows: is asleep -- 

                                                                                wake him. 

He who knows and knows he knows: is wise -- 

                                                                      follow him.

18/3/2012





 

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge. 

19/3/2012


Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.

30/3/2012




                         Confucius


Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and stars.
24/3/2012

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

30/3/2012


I hear and I forget, I  see and I remember, I do and I understand.

8/4/2012

                           

                     Aristotle

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
27/3/2012


Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
30/3/2012


The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
8/4/2012