Educated Quotes - Page 28

• If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped.

  Paul Johnson

  Religious, Believe, Political

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• I don't measure success in numbers, but I consider my contributions of more than $1.3 billion to various causes over the years to be one of my proudest accomplishments and the best investment I've ever made. Those dollars have improved lives, saved species, fought disease, educated children, inspired change, challenged ideas and opened minds; at the time of my death, virtually all of my wealth will have gone to charity.

  Ted Turner

  Children, Years, Ideas

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• The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.

  Abigail Adams

  Sex, Class, Intellectual

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.24

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• I have a deep respect for musicians, and I feel like I would want to be so prepared and so well-educated and deep in the process before I ever release anything.

  Rashida Jones

  Musician, Want, Release

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. April 8, 2009.

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• Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.

  Dionne Warwick

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

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• The workplace needs the poet's gift. But the poet also needs to be educated about the workplace. You're not just coming in to do your art, you're actually making yourself vulnerable. You yourself are not God's gift to truth. You have to hazard yourself in their world, especially because you're inviting people to do the same. It's all about become visible, becoming incarnate, becoming here and now and yet with our eyes on a future horizon; holding the conversation you were meant to hold.

  David Whyte

  Art, Eye, People

  "Courageous Conversations: An Interview with David Whyte". Interview with Kim Rosen, spiritualityhealth.com. December 8, 2014.

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• Love of learning will never let you down. You can have a quest for money, you can have a quest for power, you can have a quest for fame and they are sometimes gratifying and sometimes self-destructive. The love of learning is always gratifying and never self-destructive. The more educated, the more cultivated a society becomes, better off is everybody.

  David McCullough

  Self, Quests, Sometimes

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• I want to create a rapid response team, right around the world, perhaps starting originally with our partners, similar to the one we have in the United Nations whereby, where there's a problem in our society which demands a compassionate response, an educated, informed, not just a splurgy emotional thing, but an informed compassionate response that puts yourself in the position of the other and sees all sides of the problem, not just your own, there'll be somebody poised in each society who can write to the media, write an op-ed piece, to go on TV or radio.

  Karen Armstrong

  Team, Writing, Emotional

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Education is the key. With a really good education, you have a much broader view of the world. Well-educated people can seek help for themselves. They can help others.

  Laura Bush

  Helping Others, Keys, Views

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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• Educated people can make their own choices about their governments. And certainly for women, an education allows you to understand your rights.

  Laura Bush

  Rights, Government, People

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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• In many developing countries, girls don't go to school. They stay home. They are at the water wells, bringing water back and forth to the village. Or they are doing chores, preparing meals, farming. Some cultures think girls and women shouldn't be educated, and those are very often the places where the treatment of women and girls is the worst.

  Laura Bush

  Girl, Country, Home

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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• Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.

  Laura Bush

  Rights, Abuse, Violence

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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• When those who are educated using their education to exploit those who aren't. That's what the sub-prime scandal represents - people of education using it at the expense of others. At Jazz at Lincoln Center, we have 22 educational programs. Not just the word but the substance of education is guided by the arts.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, Educational, Lincoln Center

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• Giving homeless children the chance to be educated, giving them this ticket to their futures, is so wonderful. They will have the chance to not repeat the suffering of their childhoods in their own families. They can build secure and safe lives for themselves and their children.

  Laura Bush

  Children, Giving, Childhood

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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• Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think he is the Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God. Highly similar delusions, if expressed by educated men in obscure language, lead to professorships of philosophy; and if expressed by emotional men in eloquent language, lead to dictatorships.

  Bertrand Russell

  Kings, Philosophy, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.220, Routledge

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• It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fall, May, Nonsense

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• A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Physicians, Half

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Government, Aristocracy

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• The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

  Epictetus

  Use, Littles, Foolish

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• It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

  Aristotle

  Men, Class, Looks

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

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• I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Men, Quality, Intimate

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• A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us

  Bertrand Russell

  Fearless, Generations

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.205, Routledge

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• Whoever tries to understand the Human Values of Truth, Righteous conduct, Peace, Love and Non-violence properly, who practises these values and propagates them with zeal and sincerity can alone be described as a truly educated person.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Trying, Violence, Sincerity

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• Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Flower, Escaping, People

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• Malcolm X educated himself in prison by reading.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Reading, Prison

  Stephen D. Krashen (2004). “The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research, 2nd Edition: Insights from the Research”, p.28, ABC-CLIO

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