Quotes with educated

  • The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
  • So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.
  • It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.

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  • C. P. Snow A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you re
    The Two Cultures (1959)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • George Orwell It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Stephen R. Covey To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Thomas Scott A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Will Rogers America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Nicholas Butler America is the best half-educated country in the world.
    Nicholas Butler
    American philosopher, diplomat, and educator
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  • Alan K. Simpson An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
    Alan K. Simpson
    American politician (1931 - )
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  • Frederick the Great An educated people can be easily governed.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Camilla Luddington As a female there aren't too many characters that are very empowering, and there's something very empowering about Lara Croft. She kicks butt and she does it in style. She's confident and she's educated.
    Camilla Luddington
    British-American actress (1983 - )
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  • Mark Twain As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Anita Hill But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Oscar Wilde Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty - how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • William Ellery Channing He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Alan Turing 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.
    Alan Turing
    English mathematician and computer scientist (1912 - 1954)
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  • Assata Shakur I found that people had all kinds of levels of consciousness, all kinds of levels of education, but that Cubans in general were very educated politically. I could go sit in a bus and get into a conversation with someone and that person had a wealth of knowledge. And energy!
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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