Educated Person Quotes

• An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

  Russell Baker

  Education, Learned Person, Information

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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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• It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated.

  Edith Hamilton

  Life, Education, Stress

  Quoted in the Saturday Evening Post, 27 Sep 1958.

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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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• I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

  John Keegan

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

  Kathleen Blanco

  Education, Jobs, Thinking

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• A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

  James Stockdale

  Education, Ideas, Curiosity

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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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• It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

  James A. Baldwin

  Education, Country, Independent

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• Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Education, School

  "Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton : The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1986.

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• An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.

  Henry Ford

  Thinking, Educated, Persons

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• I study to learn, to be an educated person.

  Gary Sinise

  Study, Educated, Persons

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• It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Humility, Law, Profound

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1974). “August 1914”, Harmondsworth : Penguin

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• An educated people can be easily governed.

  Frederick The Great

  Education, Government, People

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• An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. That is what it means to be educated.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Mean, Deeds, Firsts

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1991). “Awakenings”

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• [An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

  Mildred H. McAfee

  Education, Thinking, Survival

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• The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.

  Christopher Hitchens

  World, Educated, Persons

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.12, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Education is our passport to the future.

  Malcolm X

  Education, First Day Of School, Educator

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Education beats the beauty and the youth.

  Chanakya

  Education, Learned Person, Youth

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• The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

  Allan Bloom

  Inspiring, Education, Philosophy

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Ideas, Two, Minutes

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• Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Two, Tears, Lectures

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• Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality.

  Andre Maurois

  Reality, Mind, Culture

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• Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Country, College, Keys

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• To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

  Edith Hamilton

  Education, Learning, Curiosity

  Quoted in the Saturday Evening Post, 27 Sep 1958.

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