| "We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free." »Epictetus |
| "Only the educated are free." »Epictetus |
| "Wit is educated insolence." »Aristotle |
| "The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk." »Alben William Barkley |
| "Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves." »Ernest Dimnet |
| "We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world." »J Danforth Quayle |
| "To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated." »Edith Hamilton |
| "The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead." »Aristotle |
| "The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn...and change." »Carl R. Rogers |
| "We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go." »Timothy Leary |
| "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." »Aristotle |
| "Everything has its limit--iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - 1906" »Mark Twain |
| "I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly." »Michel de Montaigne |
| "Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else." »Jane Austen |
| "It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences." »Aristotle |
| "Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man." »Norman Cousins |
| "The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man and without this all other education is good for nothing." »R. D. Hitchcock |
| "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 Simpson |
| "The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well-educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football." »Mark White |
| "Much that passes for education ... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least." »David P Gardner |
| "We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures." »Plato |
| "I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others." »Leo C. Rosten |
| "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 derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." »Calvin Coolidge |
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