The lists of some of the quotes which have been mentioned or stated by some of the prominent personalities about the importance of education are as mentioned below:

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Peter Brougham

Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
Wiliam Butler Yeats

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.
Native American Saying

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
Alfred Mercier

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G. K. Chesterton

Instruction ends in the school-room, but education ends only with life.
Frederick W.Robertson

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time -- for we are bound by that -- but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
T.S. Eliot

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.
Greek Proverb

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
Joseph Addison

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Abigail Adams

What we have learned from others becomes our own reflection.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.
Edward Gibbon

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and will never be.
Thomas Jefferson

It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state.
William Ellery Channing

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
Leonardo da Vinci

Education is more than a luxury; it is a responsibility that society owes to itself.
Robin Cook

Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education; because that would mean we had stopped growing.
Julia H. Gulliver

Character is a wish for a perfect education.
Novalis

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
Charles W. Eliot

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
John W. Gardner

Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am still learning.
Michelangelo

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which which neither freedom nor justice can be maintained.
James A. Garfield