42 Movie Quotes about Value Of Education (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: May 11, 2026

Memorable quotes about value of education, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

21 Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse. It's confusing enough, for heaven's sakes.

Junius Matthews as Archimedes in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

22 Knowledge and wisdom is the real power. -Right you are, Wart. So, stick to your schooling, boy.

Karl Swenson as Merlin; Rickie Sorensen as Arthur in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

23 There's an inherent generosity in the human spirit. One of its faces is the face of the teacher.

Dylan Walsh as Peter Elliott in Congo (1995)

24 Think of it. The knowledge, new ideas. It's gonna change everything. And we must be open to it.

Quote from Mars Attacks! (1996)

25 And the more I read and began to understand, the more I admired him.

Martin Sheen as Captain Benjamin Willard in Apocalypse Now

26 I want you to finish school, 'cause without an education the only work you're gonna get is sellin' drugs, pimpin' women or workin' security for Eddie Murphy.

Vivica A. Fox in Don't Be a Menace

27 If you practice hard, you will succeed, but there is no shortcut on the road to success.

Quote from 8 Strikes Of The Wildcat

28 You know, it was the writings of Jules Verne that had a profound effect on my life. It was when I was 11 that I first read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It was then that I realized that I must devote my life to science.

Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future Part III

29 I'd like to know how. -Use your head. An education, lad. -What good will that do? -Get it first, then, who knows?

Karl Swenson as Merlin; Rickie Sorensen as Arthur in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

30 These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

Danny DeVito as Harry Wormwood in Matilda (1996)