Educated Quotes

• 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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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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  The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Business, Book, Reading

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• 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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• I want every girl, every child, to be educated.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Children, Want

  "Malala renews push for girls' education". "The World TODAY" with Barney Porter, www.abc.net.au. February 5, 2013.

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• The more educated you get, the better shot you have to get it right, but if you're really trying something different, it's a challenge every time.

  David Copperfield

  Challenges, Trying, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

  Isabel Allende

  Peace, Promise, Working Together

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• They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops, that there's a temptation to miss your own life in pursuing the lives of your betters. It makes you wise in some ways, but it can make you a blindfolded fool in others.

  Robertson Davies

  Wise, Knowledge, Missing

  Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

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• The richest persons in Africa are heads of state, governors and ministers. So every 'educated' African who wants to be rich - and there is nothing wrong with wanting to be rich - heads straight into government or politics.

  George Ayittey

  Government, Want, Rich

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• Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

  Maya Angelou

  Education, Mother, School

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 07, 2015

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• I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Education, College

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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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• He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.

  Georg Simmel

  Learning, Know How, Knows

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

  Franz Grillparzer

  Inspirational Education, Individual, Phenomenon

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• Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

  George S. Patton

  Courage, Military, War

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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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• Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

  David P. Gardner

  Education, Teaching, Facts

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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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• 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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• I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists.

  Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

  People, Together, Earth

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