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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• 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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• I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Teacher, School, Age

  Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fall, May, Nonsense

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• Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.

  Laura Bush

  Rights, Abuse, Violence

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

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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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• I have a deep respect for musicians, and I feel like I would want to be so prepared and so well-educated and deep in the process before I ever release anything.

  Rashida Jones

  Musician, Want, Release

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. April 8, 2009.

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• He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be art, the object of children's books is to whip the little rascals into shape.

  Katherine Paterson

  Art, Children, Book

  Katherine Paterson (2011). “Read for Your Life #18”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must give your best to each and every task you take on, and reflect on your performance with an honest and unprejudiced eye.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Clever, Eye, Successful

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• One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare.

  Judi Dench

  Benefits, Fool, Language

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• Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.22.

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• It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.

  Raymond Chandler

  Education, School, College

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.37, Grove Press

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• A sad figure (Bush) ' not too well educated, who doesn't get out of America much. He's leading the country towards Fascism.

  Larry Hagman

  Country, America, Figures

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• One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less well educated than themselves, or to accept them with all that implies for their children's education and future placement in the society.

  David Riesman

  Children, Cities, People

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.263, Transaction Publishers

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• Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities.

  George Nethercutt

  Country, Responsibility, Focus

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• What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this question...What Makes a Terrorist lacks a question mark. That's because Krueger, marshaling persuasive statistics and analysis, comes down firmly on the side of politics, noting most terrorists are middle-class and well-educated.

  Thomas P.M. Barnett

  Class, Political, Statistics

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• At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country.

  Henning Mankell

  Running, Country, Leaving

  "Henning Mankell's Mozambique". www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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• Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Growing Up, Kids, Directors

  "'King of Devil's Island': Stellan Skarsgård mentors" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. January 5, 2012.

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• I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Men, Quality, Intimate

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