Quotes About Educated Person

#1. A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

James Stockdale

#2. [An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

Mildred H. McAfee

#3. You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution.

Richard Dawkins

#4. It is your responsibility to change the society if you think yourself as an educated person

James Baldwin

#5. My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.

Damian Woetzel

#6. Religious moderation springs from the fact that even the least educated person among us simply knows more about certain matters than anyone did two thousand years ago.

Sam Harris

#7. The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets their own divine nature.

Sai Baba

#8. It's an universal law
intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#9. Most people just live, but an educated person lives, enjoys, and knows why they live.

Debasish Mridha

#10. How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

Albert Einstein

#11. It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.

John Bunyan

#12. Nobody had books at home. My dad was a very educated person, so he would have books at home. All Spanish books. That helped. Most of my homies had no books at home.

Luis J. Rodriguez

#13. An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

Russell Baker

#14. I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#15. We may not have the choice to be rich or comfortable, but whatever happens; we do always have the choice to be an educated person.

M.F. Moonzajer

#16. Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality.

Andre Maurois

#17. It is the hallmark of an educated person to remain skeptical of accepted views and to regard even the most popular beliefs as working assumptions.

Spencer A. Rathus

#18. Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Chanakya

#19. I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.

Elie Wiesel

#20. The educated person is one who knows how to find out what he does not know

Georg Simmel

#21. If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource.

Peter Drucker

#22. An educated person is a person who has so developed the faculties of their mind that they can acquire anything they want

Bob Proctor

#23. What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.

Thomas Sowell

#24. I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

Lizz Winstead

#25. The majority of the people in the United States have had only an elementary education and have a speaking vocabulary of about two thousand words. (Even a well-educated person has a speaking vocabulary of approximately nine thousand words.)

Judith C. Waller

#26. I'm a better and more educated person because of basketball.

Lisa Leslie

#27. I study to learn, to be an educated person.

Gary Sinise

#28. An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. This is what it means to be educated.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#29. It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

James Baldwin

#30. An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work of art is beautiful by being what Art has never been; and to measure it by the standard of the past is to measure it by a standard on the rejection of which its real perfection depends.

Oscar Wilde

#31. I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

John Keegan

#32. An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed.

Napoleon Hill

#33. The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

Allan Bloom

#34. Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.

Robert B. Laughlin

#35. It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

Jeffrey Burton Russell

#36. Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

Kathleen Blanco

#37. I DO know lots of things that I don't remember, and remember lots of things that I don't know. It's so with every educated person.

Mark Twain

#38. An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

Mortimer Adler

#39. The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about in a way that they can understand.

John Keegan

#40. Newton's time it was possible for an educated person to have a grasp of the whole of human knowledge, at least in outline. But since then, the pace of the development of science has made this impossible.

Stephen Hawking

#41. The biggest dilemma in education today is the differing visions of what an educated person means. To do well on tests is often more important than helping young people really be prepared to deal with the tests of life.

Linda Lantieri

#42. An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.

Henry Ford

#43. Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

Novalis

#44. For an educated person, intelligence is important but character is more important.

Debasish Mridha

#45. I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [ ... ] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.

Steven Chu

#46. No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this falsehood to their children ... I would want to argue that the truth of evolution is more interesting and more poetic

Richard Dawkins

#47. Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

Brian Kernighan

#48. I've been blessed because every single role I've done has been an educated person. I've never done the stereotypical Latina, even though I have an accent - I've always been able to play educated people. That's a good thing!

Roselyn Sanchez

#49. An educated person would know that holding a degree will not make you entitled to a better job nor a better salary than someone who has no degree.

J.B.

#50. Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the 'educated' person.

Sai Baba

#51. The most educated person in the world now has to admit
I shall not say confess
that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.

Christopher Hitchens

#52. I can't be a part of the large convoy because it's not a choice that you can make. The fact that I'm an educated person means that I can't be on that convoy. I don't want to be on it. I don't want to be a victim. I don't want to disappear into the darkness.

Arundhati Roy

#53. The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

Franz Grillparzer

#54. Whoever tries to understand the Human Values of Truth, Righteous conduct, Peace, Love and Non-violence properly, who practises these values and propagates them with zeal and sincerity can alone be described as a truly educated person.

Sathya Sai Baba

#55. I'm well-educated person. I don't reurn the gift

Michel Patini

#56. The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

Joseph Stiglitz

#57. Every educated person is a future enemy.

Martin Bormann

#58. I definitely want to be known as an educated person as well as being a good football player.

Ndamukong Suh

#59. The dream of my family was for me to be an educated person.

Ahmed Zewail

#60. My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

Robert Andrews Millikan

#61. My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .

Northrop Frye

#62. Anyone who enters into an intimate relationship with God can see God do exceptional things through his or her life. The outcome does not depend upon a person being unusually gifted, educated, or wealthy. The key is the indwelling presence of God doing unusual things

Henry T. Blackaby

#63. EDUCATION TEACHES US HOW TO THINK, INTELLIGENCE HOW TO QUESTION, AND OUR MORALITY WHAT TO DO WITH WHAT WE KNOW. BE WARY THEN OF THE EDUCATED, INTELLIGENT, AND AMORAL PERSON, FOR THEY WILL KNOW ONLY THAT THEY CAN DO A THING, NOT WHETHER THEY SHOULD.

Mark T. Barnes

#64. You don't have to be the smartest person to become successful and wealthy. Many of the most successful and wealthy people in society are not the most educated people.

Jon Jones

#65. To quote Archimedes once again, you must have both "a lever and a place to stand" before you can move the world. The educated and sophisticated Western person today has many levers, but almost no solid place on which to stand, with either very weak identities or terribly overstated identities.

Richard Rohr

#66. Art is one of the few products that is almost a totally emotional buy. It is a mystery what contributes to a person's personal taste. However, being educated about the artist and his/her career may influence your decision regarding a purchase.

Ernest West Basden

#67. It is impossible for a person who fears Allah to commit terrorist acts because of his faith. Such acts are committed by people who were educated abroad, who received a Darwinist education and who internalized Darwinism, but who later called themselves Muslims.

Harun Yahya

#68. I am always sorry to hear that such and such a person is going to school to be educated. This is a great mistake. If the person is to get the benefit of what we call education, he must educate himself, under the direction of the teacher.

Fanny Jackson Coppin

#69. 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

#70. A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Brander Matthews

#71. My experience dealing with professors has taught me that educated people have the ability to demean a person with a single glance.

Ge Fei

#72. Never marry a person less educated than you. You, not only degrade yourself but also your kids will suffer whole life.

Himmilicious

#73. So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every person a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them!

Swami Vivekananda

#74. The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Carl R. Rogers

#75. Christianity is not a doctrine, not truth as truth, but the knowledge of a Person; it is knowing the Lord Jesus. You cannot be educated into being a Christian.

Theodore Austin-Sparks

#76. You may need help or information from some nongovernmental organization, and the local person heading that NGO may be some West Coast, liberal-educated, no-leg-shaving, Birkenstock-wearing female uniform-hater. And you gotta deal with her.

Dick Couch

#77. The wisdom in the story of the most educated and powerful person is often not greater than the wisdom in the story of a child, and the life of a child can teach us as much as the life of a sage.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#78. I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.

Tina Turner

#79. If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.

Kurt Vonnegut

#80. He liked to mingle with shopping mall crowds. "I'm counting on you to tell me, Jack." "Tell you what?" "You're the only person I know that's educated enough to give me the answer." "The answer to what?" "Were people this dumb before television?" One

Don DeLillo

#81. A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.

Horace Porter

#82. My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

Lynn Johnston

#83. 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

#84. The fact that any person or institution, however well respected, praises or adopts something never constitutes proof of anything. It might merely illustrate that even well-educated people or powerful institutions can sometimes commit the silliest and most obvious of mistakes.

Edzard Ernst

#85. The more educated and financially successful, the less religious a person is likely to be.

Darrel Ray

#86. In Muslim societies, a person who has been manipulated unto believing in extremist violence or terrorism often seeks the permission of his mother before he may join a militant jihad and educated women as a rule, tend to withhold their blessings from such things.

Greg Mortenson

#87. You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must give your best to each and every task you take on, and reflect on your performance with an honest and unprejudiced eye.

Konosuke Matsushita

#88. Nobody knows anything ... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

William Goldman

#89. I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.

Peter Ackroyd

#90. Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person's God-given potential.

Condoleezza Rice

#91. A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.

Jennifer A. Nielsen