Sometimes you don’t have to write a speech all by yourself. Let others find the right words for you. That’s why I started the new Quotes category in this blog. In the future you will find useful quotes and sayings by famous people that you can easily use in one of your speeches. Trust me: A cleverly placed quote can open the doors to your audience. Just don’t overuse them. Today we’ll start with quotes most useful in the educational field, for example a graduation speech.

• To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action. (Louis Sullivan)
• This education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.(Alexander Pope)
• The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.(William James)
• Good teaching comes from good people. (Parker Palmer)
• In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort. (Plato)
• Learning is like a jigsaw puzzle. When you first lay the pieces out, it doesn’t make much sense. When you start to connect the pieces, you then begin to see how it all fits together. (Anonymous)
• Education is the journey from cocksure arrogance to thoughtful uncertainty. (Kevin Huenison)
• Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school. (Albert Einstein)
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. (Chinese proverb)
• 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)
• College is about three things: homework fun and sleep … but you can only choose two. (Andy Stern)
• Knowledge is a wild thing,it must be hunted before being tamed. (Anonymous)
• It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. (Epictetus)

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