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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
Everything has its limit--iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - 1906 – Mark Twain
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. – Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1
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
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
Wit is educated insolence. – Aristotle
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. – John Adams
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. – Aristotle
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
A child only educated at school is an uneducated child. – George Santayana
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. – Fontenelle
A well educated man with an independent mind is a type of man liked by no government! – Mehmet Murat ildan
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
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. – Ernest Dimnet
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. – Michel de Montaigne
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
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. – Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible. – Aristotle
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
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
Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man 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. – Calvin Coolidge
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
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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