Educated Quotes
1017 quotes by 799 authors
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The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is…
— James A. Baldwin
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Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education…
— Kathleen Blanco
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Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.
— Hugh Mackay
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Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are…
— Desmond Tutu
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People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated.…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!
— Robert Browning
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Common education standards are essential for producing the educated work force America needs to remain globally competitive. This voluntary state lead effort will help ensure…
— Craig R. Barrett
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Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
— David P. Gardner
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An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the…
— William James
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My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realize I…
— Moon Unit Zappa
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The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a…
— Jacques Barzun
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We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds…
— Robert R. McCammon
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The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.
— Alben W. Barkley
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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
— Dan Quayle
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Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and…
— Malcolm X
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So much of becoming a good athlete involves bringing other things to the table, other than physical skills. It involves intelligence, it involves many of…
— Julius Erving
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Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are…
— Martin Rees
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