Educated Quotes - Page 19

• Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happy Marriage, Surprise, Should

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.116, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The most charming of theories holds that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays -- that he was of too low a state, and of insufficient education. But where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

  David Mamet

  Art, Powerful, Play

  David Mamet (2011). “True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor”, p.35, Vintage

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• A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market. I think sometimes a black may think they don't have an advantage or this and that. I've said on one occasion, even about myself, if I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

  "What Must Blacks Go Through?" by David D. Porter, articles.orlandosentinel.com. September 13, 1989.

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• Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked it, and the educated man counted in his circle, however large or small it was, as the mighty, the powerful, the imposing one: for he was an authority.

  Max Stirner

  Education, Powerful, Men

  Max Stirner (1967). “The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism”, Ralph Myles Pub

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• No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime and anywhere under any circumstances.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Government, Ideas, Mind

  "Jeane Kirkpatrick, Realist" by Timothy Noah, www.slate.com. December 08, 2006.

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• Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

  Jane Austen

  London, Estimating, Audience

  1814 Mansfield Park, ch.34.

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• No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Any nation that is progressive is led by people who have had the privilege of studying.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, People, Citizens

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. April 2001.

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• It is therefore, the interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated, physically and mentally, that society may be improved in its character, - that everyone should be beneficially employed, physically and mentally, that the greatest amount of wealth may be created, and knowledge attained, - that everyone should be placed in the midst of those external circumstances that will produce the greatest number of pleasurable sensations, through the longest life, that man may be made truly intelligent, moral and happy, and be thus prepared to enter upon the coming Millennium.

  Robert Owen

  Character, Men, Intelligent

  "A Development of the Principles & Plans on which to establish self-supporting Home Colonies". Book by Robert Owen, 1841.

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• Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

  Novalis

  Children, Childhood, Earth

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.31, SUNY Press

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• A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.

  Aristophanes

  Men, Rogues, Honest

  Aristophanes (2016). “The Knights”, p.15, Aristophanes

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• My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .

  Northrop Frye

  Imagination, Pieces, Persons

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.492, University of Toronto Press

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• Bhutto represents everything the fundamentalists hate - a powerful, highly-educated woman operating in a man's world, seemingly unafraid to voice her independent views and, indeed, seemingly unafraid of anything, including the very real possibility that one day someone might succeed in killing her because of who she is.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Powerful, Hate, Real

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• The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to be heard by counsel. Even the intelligent and educated layman has small and sometimes no skill in the science of law.

  George Sutherland

  Intelligent, Law, Skills

  Powell v. Alabama, 287 U.S. 45, (53), 1932.

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• Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is so conspicuous among the educated and well-to-do precisely because they are exposed to more information, and are accordingly forced to choose between living with the strains of complexity, or lapsing into simplism.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Simple, Political, Want

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1975). “Coping: On the Practice of Government”, Vintage Books USA

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• The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato and Hegel, Shelley and Baudelaire, Marx and Freud in the drugstore. Instead, they insist on recognition of the fact that the classics have left the mausoleum and come to life again, that people are just so much more educated. True, but coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Plato, Mass Culture, People

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.67, Routledge

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• Survey 2001: Men who never married, never had a child, worked full time and were college educated earn only 85% of what women with the same criteria earn.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, College, Men

  "Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.

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• I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.

  Steven Chu

  Brother, Two, Degrees

  Interview with Spencer Michels in "The NewsHour" on PBS, May 2, 2007.

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• A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.

  Aga Khan IV

  Community, Identity, Depth

  Address at the Leadership and Diversity Conference Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, www.akdn.org. May 19, 2004.

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• I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline — combine those and you'll be pretty productive.

  Nora Roberts

  Discipline, Guilt, Nun

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• The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.

  Jose Saramago

  Eye, Appreciate, Musical

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• The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance, is a basic aim of the Party and the Revolution. Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

  Saddam Hussein

  Party, Ignorance, Past

  Saddam Hussein (2009). “Social and Foreign Affairs in Iraq (Routledge Revivals)”, p.14, Routledge

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• In the Jewish Quarter [Judengasse] was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud into me. My teachers were inhuman beings [Unmenschen], my colleagues were bad company, inducing me to secret sin; my body was frail, my spirit raw.

  Moses Hess

  Teacher, Years, Secret

  "Hess' Diary" by Moses Hess, September 16, 1836.

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• The education that you give to the upper classes will not uproot idolatry and prejudice, for it is amongst the masses that the error and prejudice will always maintain their power, and while you do not uproot those prejudices from the hearts of the masses, a handful of educated Hindus will never be able successfully to reform the country.

  Keshub Chandra Sen

  Country, Heart, Errors

  Speech delivered at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington Butts, London, May 24, 1870.

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• Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.

  Marek Edelman

  Men, People, Evil

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• Mengistu seemed to symbolize the revolution. He was the baria, the slave who overthrew the master, the member of the conquered tribe who got even with the conquerors, the poorly educated son of a servant who rose against the intellectual elite.

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  Son, Rose, Intellectual

  "Ethiopia: Empire in Revolution". Book by David Ottaway and ‎Marina Ottaway, 1978.

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