Educated People Quotes

58 quotes by 55 authors

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with… — Peter Drucker
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
In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death. — Francis Crick
Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts.… — Confucius
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language… — Raymond Chandler
Asked to make a list of the men who have most dominated the thinking of the modern world, many educated people would name Freud, Einstein,… — Ernest Van den Haag
Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget how… — Esther Rolle
A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague… — George Orwell
Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would… — Sigmund Freud
One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right… — Eula Biss
I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never… — John Keegan
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry — Paul Muldoon
The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid… — Neal Stephenson
There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with highly sensible views.… — Bryan Caplan
Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make it available to… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can… — Martin Gardner
It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists. — Paul Halmos
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America, — Eric Hoffer
But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people. — Maynard James Keenan

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