Educated Quotes

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another.

I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.

To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.

Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq has a bureaucracy, Iraq has wealth. Iraq has an educated class of people who are positioned to come in and take over.

I really enjoy the people. I find them to be better educated and wittier.

Education is dangerous - every educated person is a future enemy.

As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.'

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.