Educated And Uneducated Quotes

• The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

  Aristotle

  Life, Death, Education

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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• It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  People, Tasks, Propaganda

  Herbert M. Shelton (1993). “Getting Well”, p.137, Health Research Books

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• Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Home, School

  "The Blind Who Would Lead". "The Roving Mind". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1983.

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• The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

  Newton D. Baker

  Inspiring, Graduation, Congratulations

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• Marriage can wait, education cannot.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Inspirational, Marriage, School

  Twitter post from Jan 11, 2015

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• A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Chance, Splendid, Thousand

  Twitter post from Jun 28, 2015

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

  George Santayana

  Education, Teacher, Children

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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• The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Dog, Stupid People

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• By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Ignorance

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.697, GENERAL PRESS

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• You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.

  will.i.am

  Ignorance, Rapper, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Ideas, People, Pakistan

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• It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

  Aristotle

  Success, Education, Simplicity

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Learning, Literature, Caricatures

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Pennsylvania University Press, 1968.

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• One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, White, Black

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.632, Routledge

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• To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

  A. A. Milne

  Graduation, Education, Memorable

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• The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Inspirational Education, Individual, Educated

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• Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Government, Political

  New York Times 1 Feb. 1931, pt. 5, p. 1

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• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Book, Teaching

  My Early Life ch. 9 (1930)

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• In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

  George Mikes

  Latin, People, Greek

  George Mikes (1986). “How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide”, p.23, Penguin UK

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• I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies.

  Jane Chen

  Mother, Baby, Matter

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• In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.

  Howard Schultz

  Jobs, Blue, Injury

  "Starbucks' Howard Schultz on how he became coffee king". www.mirror.co.uk. August 5, 2010.

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• I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.

  Sade Adu

  Training, Technical Training, Uneducated

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• Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

  Naveen Andrews

  Mean, Feels, University

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• I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.

  John Fowles

  Hate, Jealous, Mean

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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