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• The new religion without any secrets is philosophy. The old religion, said Aristotle, is necessary only for the uneducated; Confucius, Buddha, Voltaire and Lessing were of the same opinion.

  Artur Phleps

  Philosophy, Secret, Opinion

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• The confusion and undesigned inaccuracy so often to be observed in conversation, especially in that of uneducated persons, proves that truth needs to be cultivated as a talent, as well as recommended as a virtue.

  Elizabeth Fry

  Truth, Confusion, Needs

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• Whether we are rich or poor,
  educated or uneducated,
  whatever our nationality, colour,
  social status or ideology may be,
  the purpose of our lives is to be happy

  Dalai Lama

  Rich Or Poor, Purpose, May

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• To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.

  Margaret Millar

  Song, Eye, Darkness

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• If Jesus didn't rise from the dead, an even greater miracle happened: 12 relatively uneducated guys changed the world and were martyred to protect a lie.

  Mark Hart

  Jesus, Lying, Guy

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• We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Sex, Men, Emotional

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• It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Ignorance, Gossip, Looks

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• I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Talking, Folly

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• No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

  Joyce Cary

  People, World, Problem

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.30, New Directions Publishing

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• Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Thinking, People, May

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• To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our weapons and to betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

  C. S. Lewis

  Philosophy, Simple, Intellectual

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• Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.

  Winston Churchill

  Memories, Giving, Good Thoughts

  My Early Life ch. 9 (1930)

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• I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.

  Anton Chekhov

  Integrity, Believe, Russia

  Letter to I.I. Orlov, February 22, 1899.

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• One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, White, Black

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.632, Routledge

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• Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.

  Andy Stanley

  Wise, Ignorance, Use

  Andy Stanley (2016). “Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend”, p.138, Zondervan

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• The danger of education, I have found, is that it so easily confuses means with ends. Worse than that, it quite easily forgets both and devotes itself merely to the mass production of uneducated gradtuates - people literaly unfit for anything except to take part in an elaborate and completely artificial charade which they and their contemporaries have conspired to call "life".

  Thomas Merton

  Mean, People, Atheism

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.14, Macmillan

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• In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Education, Moving, Science

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I like art that challenges you and makes a lot of people angry because they don't get it. Because they refuse to look at it properly. Rather than open their mind to the possibility of seeing something, they just resist. A lot of people think contemporary art makes them feel stupid. Because they are stupid. They're right. If you have contempt about contemporary art, you are stupid. You can be the most uneducated person in the world and completely appreciate contemporary art, because you see the rebellion. You see that it's trying to change things.

  John Waters

  Art, Stupid, Thinking

  "Who gave John Waters the keys to the museum?". Interview with Colin Covert, www.startribune.com. June 5, 2011.

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• Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job. And if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing. And it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock.

  Anna Holmes

  Mom, Jobs, Children

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.

  Trudi Canavan

  Slave, Obedience, Pathetic

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• No more harmful nonsense exists than [the] common supposition that deepest insight into great questions about the meaning of life or the structure of reality emerges most readily when a free, undisciplined, and uncluttered (read, rather, ignorant and uneducated) mind soars above mere earthly knowledge and concern.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Reality, Ignorant, Mind

  "I Have Landed". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "No Science Without Fancy, No Art Without Facts", p. 48, May 14, 2002.

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• Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Education, Hands, Issues

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• Life is about committing ourselves on a daily basis to the best in us. Freedom is a state of mind. Freedom is an attitude. Freedom is a spirit. You may be behind bars, but you still have the capacity to be free. I've visited some people behind bars who are freer than Negroes I see running around every day. Being in jail, or poor, or uneducated doesn't determine how free you can be. There are really only two types of people. Either you're running scared or you're running free. I choose to run free, and you can, too, no matter what your circumstances in life.

  Tavis Smiley

  Running, Attitude, People

  Source: aalbc.com

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• It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.

  Dale Carnegie

  Book, Law, Names

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.26, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Teacher, Educational, Teaching

  "What's Wrong With The World". Part Four: Education: Or the Mistake About the Child. Ch. 4: The Truth About Education. Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1910.

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