Educated Quotes

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

Mind, Thought, Able

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou

Mother, School, Ignorance

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge

Education, Alone, Nothing

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
Mark Twain

Cannot, Gold, Limit

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Chanakya

Beauty, Education, Best

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

Nothing, Newspapers, Reads

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.
Mark Twain

Word, Beginning, Except

Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle

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

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle

Living, Dead, Uneducated

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers

Change, Person, Learned

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
Isabel Allende

Peace, Women, Together

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana

School, Child, Uneducated

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Horace Mann

Human, Until, Full

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Plato

Love, Beautiful, Orderly

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

Ignorance, America, Few

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
Nelson Mandela

Country, Unless, Develop

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will Rogers

Stupid, Nothing, Him

Only the educated are free.
Epictetus

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
John Henrik Clarke

Power, Powerful, Cannot

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
Maynard James Keenan

History, Government, Control

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Russell Baker

Best, Person, Learned

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Ernest Dimnet

Children, Themselves, Left

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?
Willie Nelson

God, Government, Put

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

Government, Democracy, Means

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Tom Brokaw

Life, Change, Good

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
George S. Patton

Courage, Face, Useless

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James A. Baldwin

Mind, Person, Country

It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.
Bill O'Reilly

Work, Hard, Lazy

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
Chinua Achebe

Leadership, Democracy, Healthy

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