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

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

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

It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.
John Dykstra

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

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

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

Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.
Timothy Thomas Fortune

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.
Billy Bragg

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
Charles Kettering

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.
George Weinberg

My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.
Satyajit Ray

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

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.
Moon Unit Zappa

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

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.
Brad Henry

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
Thomas More

Only the educated are free.
Epictetus