Well Educated Quotes

• We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

  Epictetus

  Learning, Giving, Credit

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, Preserved by Arrian ; The Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.154

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• The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

  Alben W. Barkley

  Inspirational, Drinking, Intelligent

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• I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.

  Pope Francis

  Believe, Black, Advantage

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

  Carl Rogers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Beauty, Education

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• Education beats the beauty and the youth.

  Chanakya

  Education, Learned Person, Youth

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• They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.

  Douglas Yates

  Education, School, Mean

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• Education is the key. With a really good education, you have a much broader view of the world. Well-educated people can seek help for themselves. They can help others.

  Laura Bush

  Helping Others, Keys, Views

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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• We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."

  Tony Robbins

  Dream, Pain, Smart

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well-educated teachers and a sound educational program.

  Diane Ravitch

  Teacher, Children, Educational

  "Education and the election: it's still all about the money" Lucy Clark, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2016.

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• Make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You’re a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You’re barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they’re a-coming for ya. It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Graduation, Mistake, Memorable

  Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

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• Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security.

  Mark Hatfield

  People, Vulnerable, National Security

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• We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

  Andreas Schleicher

  Country, Motivation, Inspiration

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• To be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends.

  Alfie Kohn

  Mean, Desire, Ends

  Alfie Kohn (2004). “What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?: And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies”, p.10, Beacon Press

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• I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done in China...I don't know who it was...it must have been a man...a well-educated man. I don't know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn't willing...and God looked down...and saw Gladys Aylward...and God said, 'Well, she's willing.'

  Gladys Aylward

  Men, Choices, Done

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• The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you can be so well educated that you can build a nuclear bomb, and still get--and still believe that you will get the 72 virgins in paradise--that is the problem. The problem is that--religion--because it has been sheltered from criticism as it has been--allows people--perfectly sane, perfectly intelligent people--to believe en masse, what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Stupid, Believe

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• You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that the obvious isn't real to you anymore.

  Peggy Noonan

  Real, Thinking, America

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• But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

  Nikola Tesla

  Powerful, Women, Civilization

  "When woman is boss". "Colliers" Magazine, January 30, 1926.

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• No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.

  Tony Abbott

  Smart, Educated, Wells

  "Tony Abbott declares 'no one can be a suppository of all wisdom'" by Lauren Novak, Lanai Scarr, www.news.com.au. August 13, 2013.

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• If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others; if they not only knew how to regulate their own minds, tempers, and habits but how to effect improvements in those around them, the face of society would be speedily changed.

  Catharine Beecher

  Mind, Faces, Female

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1829). “Suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education: Presented to the Trustees of the Hartford Female Seminary, and Published at Their Request”, p.16

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• So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

  Plato

  Dance, Men, Dancing

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• Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are well educated you have already been socialized in ways that support the power structure, which, in turn, rewards you immensely.

  Noam Chomsky

  School, Independent, Creating

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Chomsky on Mis-Education”, p.16, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• You people are not prepared. You are well educated and you look cute, but that's not going to cut it.

  Bill Cosby

  Cute, Success, Cutting

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• I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Mind, Enthusiasm, Melancholy

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “A Classic Crime Collection”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• Many people are being persuaded that they cannot be considered intelligent or well educated if they insist on the doctrine of the verbal inspiration of the Book. Let me say to you that truth has always lived with the minority; what the majority says at a given moment is usually wrong. The crowd one day cried, "Crucify him," and the whole world united to murder the Son of God, because in their ignorance they knew Him not.

  Alan Redpath

  Bible, Book, Inspiration

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