"We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment."
- Lyndon B. Johnson, October 16, 1968

"Education is the best provision for old age."
- Aristotle

"To give away money is an easy matter ... and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter. Hence it is that such excellence is rare, praiseworthy and noble."
- Aristotle

"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance."
- Sir Claus Moser

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
- Seen on a bumper sticker

"If you think education is expensive, try old age."
- Unknown

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the highest return."
- Ben Franklin

"Education is not expensive, it's priceless."
- Seen on an envelope from Judson College, Illinois.

"As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning."
- John Gray

"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."
- Teddy Roosevelt, 1907

"The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization."
- W.E.B.DuBois, "The Souls of Black Folk," 1903

"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."
- Malcolm X

Get learning with a great sum of money, and get much gold by her.
- Ecclesiasticus 51:28

I want every individual who has the potential and qualifications to succeed in higher education to be given the opportunity to participate, whatever their family background.

No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.
- Gordon Brown, Britain's Prime Minister, July 5, 2007

Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.
- Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Chairman, September 24, 2007

Quotes About Education

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H.G. Wells, "The Outline of History," 1951

A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pieran spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
- Alexander Pope, 1688-1744

For as the old saying is,
When house and land are gone and spent
Then learning is most excellent.
- Samuel Foote, "Taste," 1752

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
- B.F. Skinner, 1964

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
- Roger Ascham, 1515-1568

"Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake -- but for the future of our nation's sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not our military preparedness -- for armed might is worthless if we lack the brainpower to build world peace; not our productive economy -- for we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government -- for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant."
- President Lyndon Johnson, while declaring a national goal of full educational opportunity

"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave."
- Lord Brougham Speech, Jan. 1828, to the House of Commons

"A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
- James Madison

"Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est" (Knowledge Itself Is Power)
- Francis Bacon

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
- Marie Curie

"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lift human life above the level of farce and give it some of the grace of tragedy."
- Steven Weinberg

"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations."
- Patricia Neal

"To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall."
- T. H. Huxley

"He who does not understand history is doomed to repeat it."
- Santayana

"Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read, he will be the man who has not learned how to learn."
- Herbert Gerjuoy

"Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise."
- Adlai Stevenson, "What I Think"

"It is only the ignorant who despise education."
- Publius Syrus, 42 BC

"It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity."
- President Lyndon B. Johnson, November 8, 1965

"Poverty has many roots, but the taproot is ignorance."
- President Lyndon B. Johnson

Let us not think of education only in terms of its costs, but rather in terms of the infinite potential of the human mind that can be realized through education. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
- President John F. Kennedy, July 25, 1961

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- President John F. Kennedy, February 20, 1961

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
- Kofi A. Annan, 1999

Quotes About Money

"He is richest who is content with the least."
- Socrates

"Money is indeed the most important thing in the world."
- George Bernard Shaw

"When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in the world. Now that I'm old . . . I know it is."
- Oscar Wilde

"Whoever thinks that money can't buy happiness . . . just doesn't know where to shop!"
- Peanuts

"To give away money is an easy matter, and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power, nor an easy matter. Hence it is that such excellence is rare, praiseworthy, and noble."
- Aristotle

Miscellaneous Quotes

"We will either find a way, or we will make one."
- Hannibal