Famous Quotes

"If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'"

Benjamin Carson on Education

More quotes about Education

• "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

  Nelson Mandela on Education

• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

  Albert Einstein on Education

• "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

  Aristotle on Education

• "My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

  Maya Angelou on Education

• "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

  Oscar Wilde on Education

More quotes by Benjamin Carson

• "In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter."

• "We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground."

• "No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best."

• "Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations they are there to make money."

• "When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool."