An Educated Man Quotes

#1. The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#2. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. Ahh . . . an educated man. Well, you're not as stupid as you look. Don't quote Nietzsche at me, kid. That German crackpot wouldn't know a real monster if it bit him on the ass.

Larry Correia

#3. I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

Anton Chekhov

#4. An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

Henry Ford

#5. I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.

Roberto Bolano

#6. An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.

Napoleon Hill

#7. An educated man should know everything about something and something about everything

C.V. Wedgwood

#8. A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.

E. Digby Baltzell

#9. 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.

Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

#10. I'm not an educated man, but I've read some history. Every kingdom comes up bloody. Every castle is built on a pile of bones. When I came out here, LA was nothing. Back east I was a gangster, out here I'm god.

Mickey Cohen

#11. 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

#12. I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.

Maynard James Keenan

#13. A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

Henry Ford

#14. For it is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs.

Aristotle.

#15. I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.

Pancho Villa

#16. An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.

Lin Yutang

#17. Politics, these days, is no occupation
for an educated man, a man of character.
Ignorance and total lousiness are better.

Aristophanes

#18. It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

Aristotle.

#19. It is the mark of an educated man to be able to evaluate a thought without accepting it. ARISTOTLE

Paul Pearsall

#20. My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: 'Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say ... '
He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant.

Neil Gaiman

#21. Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

Douglas Sirk

#22. By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

Clifton Fadiman

#23. General or specialized knowledge. An educated man

Napoleon Hill

#24. Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Norman Cousins

#25. If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Virginia Woolf

#26. They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.

Nikolai Gogol

#27. Only mass education, he used to say, would free my people, arguing that an educated man could not be oppressed because he could think for himself.

Nelson Mandela

#28. One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read
what not to see or what not to listen to.

Ezra Taft Benson

#29. An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#30. The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

D.H. Lawrence

#31. I do not pretend to be a divine man, but I do believe in divine guidance, divine power, and in the fulfillment of divine prophecy. I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field but I am sincere, and my sincerity is my credentials.

Malcolm X

#32. Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

George Bernard Shaw

#33. The plague had killed far more females than males. As one of the few women in The New America, especially an educated, civilized woman, I'd always supposed I was ever man's type.

Anna Carey

#34. The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but yet it does appear to me that the bent to worship is an integral part of man's nature.

Annie Besant

#35. Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked it, and the educated man counted in his circle, however large or small it was, as the mighty, the powerful, the imposing one: for he was an authority.

Max Stirner

#36. I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.

Robert Andrews Millikan

#37. I am for Obama, all the way. I don't support Obama just because he is a black man; I support him because he is an educated black man. He is making black people proud.

Tony Yayo

#38. ...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation to parade it,...

W. Somerset Maugham

#39. A well educated man with an independent mind is a type of man liked by no government!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#40. In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#41. I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man.

Marion Barry

#42. There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

George Bernard Shaw

#43. An humble man without learning, but filled with the Holy Spirit,
is more powerful than the most nobly-born profound scholar
without that inspiration. He who is educated by the Divine Spirit
can, in his time, lead others to receive the same Spirit.

Abdu'l- Baha

#44. 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

#45. Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#46. The mark of an intelligent and educated man is one who does not really accept the idea of "work". That is to say; he does not accept the process of doing chores every day, that aren't in the least bit interesting to him, just in order to go on living.

Alan W. Watts

#47. He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite.

Jorge Luis Borges

#48. A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.

Aristophanes

#49. Now each man judges well the things he knows, and of these he is a good judge. And so the man who has been educated in a subject is a good judge of that subject, and the man who has received an all-round education is a good judge in general.

Aristotle.