Educated Quotes

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

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 mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.

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

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

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

And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side.

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

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

Every educated person is a future enemy.

The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles.

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.