Educated Man Quotes

• Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

  Norman Cousins

  Life, Respect, Men

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• If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

  Virginia Woolf

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “Three Guineas”, p.51, Virginia Woolf

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• An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Education, Men, Thinking

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• To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Education, Business

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• A truly educated man never ceases to learn.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Men, Educated, Cease

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• An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

  Henry Ford

  Inspiring, Education, Memories

  Henry Ford, Rose Wilder Lane, Samuel Crowther “The Story of Henry Ford - An American Dream Cone True”, Lulu.com

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• We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

  Charles Kettering

  Education, Art, Failure

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• A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.

  E. Digby Baltzell

  Men, Answers, Asking

  E. Digby Baltzell (2018). “Judgment and Sensibility: Religion and Stratification”, p.191, Routledge

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• We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Birthday, Men, Luxury

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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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• It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

  Aristotle

  Men, Class, Looks

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

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• The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

  Karl G. Maeser

  Education, Men, Understanding

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• A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Education, Men, Musical

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• There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Education, Stupid

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Education, Men, Information

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• One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Men, Today, Mark

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• An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others. –

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Law Of Attraction, Rights

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.66, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

  Charles Kettering

  Education, Stupid, Science

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one

  Clifton Fadiman

  School, Men, Trying

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• Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

  Douglas Sirk

  Beautiful, Men, Rocks

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• There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!

  Robert Browning

  God, Education, Men

  'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 10, l. 1975

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• The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Men, Quality, Degrees

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• Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.

  Moses Mendelssohn

  Men, Order, Friendly

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• Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

  R. D. Laing

  Children, Men, Normal

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.

  Aristotle

  Men, Simplicity, Crowds

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

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