Famous Quotes

"I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 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 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

• "I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age."

• "Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them."

• "The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change."

• "My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it."

• "I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream."