Ancient Quote by Francois Rabelais

The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no one, except…

— Steven Pressfield

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

— Albert Einstein

“By being “educated” I mean having such an apprehension of the contours of the map of what has been written in the past, as…

— William Hutchison Murray

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

— George Bernard Shaw

It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek…

— James Loeb

As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college."

— Anonymous

“Those who have not learned to read the ancient classics in the language in which they were written must have a very imperfect knowledge…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The ambition to secure an education was most praiseworthy and encouraging. The idea, however, was too prevalent that, as soon as one secured a…

— Booker T. Washington

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

— Mikhail Bulgakov

In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.

— Thucydides

..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I…

— Peter Drucker

An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.

— Henry Ford