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"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
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"Only the educated are free." »Epictetus
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"Wit is educated insolence." »Aristotle
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"The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk." »Alben William Barkley
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"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves." »Ernest Dimnet
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"To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated." »Edith Hamilton
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"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world." »J Danforth Quayle
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"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead." »Aristotle
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"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom." »John Adams
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"Everything has its limit--iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - 1906" »Mark Twain
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"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn...and change." »Carl R. Rogers
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"We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go." »Timothy Leary
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"The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion." »Author Unknown
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." »Aristotle
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"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly." »Michel de Montaigne
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"Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man." »Norman Cousins
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"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
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"It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences." »Aristotle
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"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
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"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination." »Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it." »Orison Swett Marden
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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