Education Quote by Maya Angelou

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

— Joseph Heller

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

— Anonymous

He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher

— Publius Cornelius Tacitus

He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.

— John Irving

Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked…

— Max Stirner

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a…

— William Thomas Green Morton

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

— Marcel Proust

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at…

— Charles Baudelaire

He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge,…

— Anonymous

“His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely “Modern.” The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and…

— C.S. Lewis

He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that…

— Neal Stephenson

A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.

— Brandon Sanderson