Educated Quotes - Page 21

• Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Comfort, West

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.22.

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• Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Body, Information

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.307, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. It may then fairly be inferred, that, till society be differently constituted, much cannot be expected from education.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Character, Men, Age

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• The mysteries of the faith are not to [be] explained rashly to anyone. Usually in fact, they cannot be understood by everyone but only by those who are qualified to understand them with informed intelligence. The depth of the divine Scriptures is such that not only the illiterate and uninitiated have difficulty understanding them, but also the educated and the gifted.

  Pope Innocent III

  Understanding, Religion, Atheism

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• We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.

  George Brandis

  Needs, Stories, Sophisticated

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes.

  Denzel Washington

  Jobs, Shoes, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Character is a perfectly educated will.

  Novalis

  Character

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• Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Children, Growing Up

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• It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.

  Pauline Kael

  Depressing, Art, Mean

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through mediocrities of all kinds, to men of real brains and sensibility, more or less stiffened into various respectabilities or substitutes for respectability. The number of Ignorant Specialists is large. The number of hysterics and compulsives is also large.

  Louise Bogan

  Strong, Real, Men

  Louise Bogan (2005). “A poet's prose: selected writings of Louise Bogan : with the uncollected poems”, Swallow Press

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• You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Son, Simple, Higher Ground

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.384, Broadview Press

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• it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Imbibing, Prejudice, Absurd

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.337, Broadview Press

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• When I read educational articles it often seems to me that this important side of the matter, the purely personal side, is not emphasized enough; the fact that it is so much more agreeable and interesting to be an educated person than not. The sheer pleasure of being educated does not seem to be stressed.

  Edith Hamilton

  Education, Interesting, Stressed

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• Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

  Harriet Martineau

  Imperfect, Institutions, Inequality

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.120

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• Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

  Beatrice Webb

  Education, Men, Self

  Beatrice Potter Webb (1963). “American diary, 1898”

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• I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Lucky

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1982). “Collected poems”, Carcanet New Press ; New York : Viking Press

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• If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government?s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes them! It is such a fraud.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mistake, Responsibility, Fighting

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• School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

  Edward Albee

  Music, Art, School

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• There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.

  Narayanananda Swami.

  Three, World, Fool

  "Revelation". Book by Narayanananda Swami p. 168 (2001 edition), 1951.

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• I adore my black skin and my kinky hair. The Negro hair is more educated than the white man's hair. Because with Negro hair, where you put it, it stays. It's obedient. The hair of the white, just give one quick movement, and it's out of place. It won't obey. If reincarnation exists I want to come back black.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Men, White Man, Hair

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Numbers, People, Soul

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• Education is a very empowering experience, so many people who went to school also managed to improve their quality of life much faster because they could get a job, they could get money. Once people see that you improve your life if you are educated, then education becomes a valuable tool and people want it.

  Wangari Maathai

  Jobs, School, People

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• It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.

  Wangari Maathai

  Crazy, Men, West

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• With women, you always have to make an educated decision to figure out what they're thinking. It's not one that's necessarily sympathetic, always. Of course, we're all human beings, but the gender thing is big thing. And a great thing.

  Will Oldham

  Thinking, Decision, Gender

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. September 1, 2001.

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