Educated Quotes - Page 18

• I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

  Lizz Winstead

  College, Self, Belief

  Source: www.avclub.com

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  I've passed on a number of bills. I've studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated...

  Dianne Feinstein

  Numbers, Bills, Constitution

  "Fireworks: Ted Cruz vs. Dianne Feinstein On Gun Rights". www.realclearpolitics.com. March 14, 2013.

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• Full of fun, over-the-top characters and witty prose, with a touch of gay romance that is equally pleasing to straight readers. The Edwin Drood Murders is the perfect mystery for educated, intelligent readers.

  Rhys Bowen

  Witty, Fun, Character

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• Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common sense one has, not by how much educated or knowledgeable he is.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Common Sense, Genius

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• Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.

  Peter Drucker

  Meaningful, Jobs, Opportunity

  "Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1959.

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• [T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.

  Peter Drucker

  School, Greek, Age

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.115, Transaction Publishers

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• I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. ...I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in.

  Peter Drucker

  Country, Thinking, Growth

  "Managing in a Time of Great Change". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1995.

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• A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she has cultivated them. The possession of knowledge makes for unjust power over others only if used for that very purpose: a physician or lawyer or clergyman can exploit or humiliate others, or he can be a humanitarian and a benefactor. In any case, it is absurd to conjure up behind anybody who exploits his educated status the existence of an "elite" scheming to oppress the rest of us.

  Jacques Barzun

  Art, Ignorance, Physicians

  "Exeunt the Humanities". Essay by Jacques Barzun (1980) published in his book "The Culture We Deserve" (p. 117), 1989.

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• My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she was so afraid that I should ever do a foolish thing, or not say a wise one, that she prompted my every word, and guided my every action. So I grew up, seeing with her eyes, hearing with her ears, and judging with her understanding, till, at length, it was found out that I had not eyes, ears or understanding of my own.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Wise, Mother, Eye

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825”, p.2

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• Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not much longer. Science, as a dominant factor in determining the belief of educated men, has existed for about 300 years; as a source of economic technique, for about 150 years. In this brief period it has proved itself an incredibly powerful revolutionary force. When we consider how recently it has risen to power, we find ourselves forced to believe that we are at the very beginning of its work in transforming human life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Powerful, Believe, Writing

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.1, Routledge

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• Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religious, Stupid, Teaching

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.73, Routledge

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• Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those whose whole careers have been spent in ivy-covered buildings, insulated by tenure, can remain adolescents on into their golden retirement years.

  Thomas Sowell

  Retirement, Reality, Years

  "Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene". townhall.com. May 05, 2007.

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• My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Kids, Disrespect, Democracy

  "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 64, 1980.

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• Truths, no matter how momentous or enduring, are nothing to the individual until he appreciates them, and feels their force, and acknowledges their sovereignty. He cannot bow to their majesty until he sees their power. All the blind then, and all the ignorant--that is, all the children--must be educated up to the point of perceiving and admitting the truth, and acting according to its mandates.

  Horace Mann

  Children, Appreciate, Ignorant

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1839). “Common School Journal”

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• As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Apples, Humans

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.81

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• We cannot know what John of Leyden felt Under the Bishop 's tongs - we can only Walk in temperate London, our educated city, Wishing to cry as freely as they did who died In the Age of Faith. We have our loneliness And our regret with which to build an eschatology.

  Peter Porter

  Regret, Loneliness, Cities

  Peter Porter (1989). “A Porter Selected: Poems, 1959-1989”, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press

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• I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in inhumane conditions, if you're not educated, if you're extremely poor, if you're humiliated, then as a child if you suffer abuse, then you will manifest even when you grow up.

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  "Deepak Chopra Traces Jesus' Untold Story". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. November 10, 2008.

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• Art is one of the few products that is almost a totally emotional buy. It is a mystery what contributes to a person's personal taste. However, being educated about the artist and his/her career may influence your decision regarding a purchase.

  Ernest West Basden

  Art, Emotional, Careers

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• It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

  Jeffrey Burton Russell

  Civilization, Earth, Firsts

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• It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person should do is to understand the meaning of life. But the majority of people who consider themselves to be educated are proud that they have reached such great height that they cease to care about the meaning of existence.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Meaning Of Life, Majority

  "A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy, April 30.

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• Educated men - "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Men, Ideas, Judging

  "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal". Book by Peter Kropotkin, 1896.

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• People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Knowledge, Men, Thinking

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.577, eKitap Projesi

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• What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.

  Aristotle

  Good Life, Successful, Agreement

  Aristotle, Renford Bambrough (1963). “The philosophy of aristotle, a new selection with an introd. and commentary by Renford Bambrough. New translations by A. E. Wardman and J. L. Creed”

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• A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all is more advanced culturally and more healthy mentally than our educated, newspaper-reading radio-listening culture.

  Erich Fromm

  Real, Reading, Expression

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.392, Open Road Media

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• I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

  Oscar Wilde

  Teaching, Taken, Enthusiasm

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