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No Education Quotes

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all

- Aristotle

I've got no education.
- Andrea Arnold

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
- Booker T Washington

I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.
- Mikhail Bulgakov

But then, look at me. My brain is incorrectly formed, and I'm shaped like a tube. Plus, I'm an alcoholic, a "survivor" of childhood sexual abuse, was raised in a cult and have no education. So, really, if you think about it, the only thing that separates me from the guy with the stinky foot and no teeth is a book deal and some cologne.
- Augusten Burroughs

No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.
- Cyril Connolly

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.
- Peter Criss

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
- Sammy Davis Jr

There is no education like adversity.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.
- Seth Grahamsmith

I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is.
- John Howe

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
- William Law

The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.
- Richard Morris

A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.
- Jennifer A Nielsen

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
- Itzhak Perlman

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.
- Ron Silver

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