Luckily there have been smarter people than myself to say inspirational words of wisdom to help get people motivated.

Some make perfect sense - and some are total BS. But I'll leave you to filter...

Below are a few that might come in handy next time you need to dig deep.

**Update: FEB 2012** We have just created an entire section for educational quotes with far more than is on this page. It can be found here.

Horace Mann
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Thomas Jefferson
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.
C. S. Lewis
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Benjamin Franklin
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Albert Einstein
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Helen Keller
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Jim Rohn
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Henry Brooks Adams
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Nelson Mandela
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

'No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that created it. We need to see the world anew.' Albert Einstein

'Insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting the different results' Albert Einstein.

'If we always do what we've always done, we will get what we've always got.' Adam Urbanski

'One can never consent to creep when one feels the compulsion to soar'. Helen Keller

'Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.' Oliver Wendell Holmes Jnr

'Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each others errors….Only a sailor can set them straight'. John Ralston Saul, 'Voltaire's Bastards'.

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