Educated Quotes - Page 4

• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Motivational, Wisdom, Perseverance

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

  Walter Annenberg

  Education, College, Doe

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Education, Teaching, Learning

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

  Will Rogers

  Education, Ignorance, America

  "Will Rogers Speaks". Over 1000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers And Writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers...,

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• What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

  Sylvia Plath

  Ideas, Feminism, Age

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.328, Anchor

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• A well educated man with an independent mind is a type of man liked by no government!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Independent, Men, Mind

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• No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.

  James Randi

  Smart, Matter, Deceived

  "An Honest Liar". Documentary, www.imdb.com. April 18, 2014.

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• The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

  William James

  Fear, Civilization, Class

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.334, Library of America

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• If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Growing Up, Ethics, Oppression

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.109, Vintage

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• For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry

  Paul Muldoon

  Reading, People, Reason

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• Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

  Bell Hooks

  Challenges, Adults, Fiction

  bell hooks (2003). “Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• I became an artist because of the possibility it gave me to develop in another way, because I didn't want to follow the same lines the others around me did. I was educated in the former German Democratic Republic, which meant that an individual figure had to be... like a soldier in the army.

  Georg Baselitz

  Army, Artist, Soldier

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• In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Education, Knowledge, Order

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• My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Writing, School, Ties

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• 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 or intelligent.

  Neal Stephenson

  Stupid, Intelligent, Differences

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.283, Spectra

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• No matter what your product is, you are ultimately in the education business. Your customers need to be constantly educated about the many advantages of doing business with you, trained to use your products more effectively, and taught how to make never-ending improvement in their lives.

  Robert G. Allen

  Business, Mlm, Marketing

  Robert G. Allen (2010). “Multiple Streams of Internet Income: How Ordinary People Make Extraordinary Money Online”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

  David Brooks

  Character, People, Leave Me Alone

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• We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this.

  Moshe Sharett

  Country, Morocco, Achieve

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• Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.

  Jules Verne

  New Experiences, Culture, World

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• Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.

  Christine de Pizan

  Men, Foolish Man, Opinion

  Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

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• Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

  Curtis Mayfield

  School, Fool, Educated Fools

  Song: If There's Hell Below

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• He that winneth souls is wise (Proverbs 11:30) - Those are the best educated ministers, who win the most souls.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Wise, Winning, Soul

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• Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled.  All our difficulty comes with the others.  When did you meet a workman who believes the papers?  He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles....He's our problem.  We have to recondition him.  But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning.  They're all right already.  They'll believe anything.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Believe, People

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• Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to keep informed as he did only thirty or forty years ago. Being "educated" today requires not only more than a superficial knowledge of the arts and sciences, but a sense of inter-relationship such as is taught in few schools. Finally, being "educated" today, in terms of the larger needs, means preparation for world citizenship; in short, education for survival.

  Norman Cousins

  Time, Art, School

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