Quotes About Well Educated

#1. As a layperson, I consider myself fairly well-educated in terms of politics. My family always has been really interested in politics, and various members of my family have a hand in politics in upstate New York.

Reid Scott

#2. We shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

Plato

#3. I'm not all that well-educated or well-read, and I always feel a little intimidated about that. I perceive things on a much more instinctive level instead of intellectualizing things.

Theresa Russell

#4. I have a deep respect for musicians, and I feel like I would want to be so prepared and so well-educated and deep in the process before I ever release anything.

Rashida Jones

#5. To be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends.

Alfie Kohn

#6. I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school.

Marlo Thomas

#7. My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#8. For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.

Paul Muldoon

#9. A strong economy begins with a strong, well-educated workforce.

Bill Owens

#10. 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.

#11. Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

Clint Eastwood

#12. Denna lifted her glass in a salute. To the gullibility of the well-educated.

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.

Valentina Tereshkova

#14. Historians say that revolutions come in a country not when things are at their worst but when they begin to improve, when an entire generation has been well fed, sheltered, and educated so that it feels its strength in a way previous generations, ignorant, ill fed, and unhealthy, did not.

Mark Bowden

#15. You people are not prepared. You are well educated and you look cute, but that's not going to cut it.

Bill Cosby

#16. I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.

Pankaj Mishra

#17. As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.

Eddie Vedder

#18. 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

#19. No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.

James Randi

#20. I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

Edgar Allan Poe

#21. My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated ... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.

Patti Smith

#22. And only well-informed, warm-hearted people can teach others things they'll always remember and love. Computers and TV don't do that. A computer teaches a child what a computer can become. An educated human being teaches a child what a child can become.

Kurt Vonnegut

#23. I'm giving you my Bible answers. I'm not well educated.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

#24. At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country.

Henning Mankell

#25. There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained.

Tim Heidecker

#26. A man is well educated when he knows where to find what he doesn't know.

Georg Simmel

#27. Some of the vamps formed into smaller groups, to chat or plot or whatever vamps did at undead nonfunerals. Oddly, they talked about the stock market and the latest flare-up in the Middle East, like any well-educated group of humans. It was almost as disorienting as hearing them quote Jesus. Then,

Faith Hunter

#28. A robust Liberian middle-class fosters the advancement of social wealth and a well-educated Liberian society.

Henry Johnson Jr

#29. He knew more of my intended career than I knew myself. I should be well enough educated for my destiny if I could "hold my own" with average young man in prosperous circumstances.

Charles Dickens

#30. I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.

Maajid Nawaz

#31. There are many Saudi women doctors, and there are many wealthy and powerful and well-educated Saudi women who circumvent the restrictions put upon them, quietly or otherwise.

Dave Eggers

#32. I've been so amazed at the number of really professional top-of-their-game women who I know to be intelligent, well educated and brilliant who have said, 'What was it like to snog Matt LeBlanc?'

Tamsin Greig

#33. Inside Iran, people are actually quite well-educated about America. There are things they don't understand, particularly in the government, but the people, by and large, know the American sensibility quite well, and the reverse is not true.

Hooman Majd

#34. 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

#35. The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern society. Unless they are reasonably well-educated, they can't deal with them.

Stewart Udall

#36. Well, it doesn't work. Lowering standards just leads to poorly educated students who feel entitled to easy work and lavish praise.

Matthew Syed

#37. My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk from the order of Pijar, a very well-educated and ascetic man who loved nothing but solitude.

Wladyslaw Reymont

#38. H.M.," said the Woggle-Bug, pompously, "means Highly Magnified; and T.E. means Thoroughly Educated. I am, in reality, a very big bug, and doubtless the most intelligent being in all this broad domain."
"How well you disguise it," said the Wizard.

L. Frank Baum

#39. The only thing they [government] want is better data. But data doesn't tell people someone is well educated. It's a vicious circle. There is some myth involved. Some of this attitude has a long history.

Deborah Meier

#40. 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

#41. The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.

Alben W. Barkley

#42. So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

Plato

#43. Alice was pretty enough and played piano well, but she was educated in excess of a lady's requirements. She was also possessed of a quiet, stubborn strength of character that had discouraged beaux less determined than Henry Holliday, a Georgia planter ten years her senior.

Mary Doria Russell

#44. You're white. You're straight. You're well educated, healthy and beautiful. Every time is for people like you.

Tiffany Reisz

#45. Do things fairly, especially with your children. Girls deserve equal opportunities, especially in getting educated as well as equal sharing in business.

Andrew Gotianun

#46. I ended up doing amazing things with my life; I'm well-read, educated and sophisticated - and I'm not the stereotype everyone makes me out to be.

Taryn Manning

#47. Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

Stellan Skarsgard

#48. I talked to lots of people who are vaccine-hesitant, and I actually was one myself until I got further into this project, and most of them actually are in my demographic: so well-educated people with advanced degrees who are upper middle-class and have read quite a bit on the subject.

Eula Biss

#49. Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.

Ernest Istook

#50. That is the nature of being well educated. It is to accept the framework of power and not question it.

Noam Chomsky

#51. Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

Jane Austen

#52. There is a huge number of people outside our borders who would love to come here. In fact, many of them come here, get well educated, and then are required to leave ... This is a factor in income inequality.

Alan Greenspan

#53. If you are well educated, and especially if you are a health professional, you will have to unlearn much of what you've been taught and start afresh with the rather disruptive thought that natural healing may actually work.

Andrew Saul

#54. being well educated has certain economic drawbacks. Victor's

Thomas J. Stanley

#55. The natural evolution of a well-educated populus is integration. And this is not political; it's not theoretical; it's not even partisan.

Stacey Dash

#56. There's a horrible stereotype of both the romance writer and the romance reader as somehow undereducated and unprofessional, when in fact there are a number of incredibly well-educated professional women who have chosen to leave their other careers and go into writing romance.

Lauren Willig

#57. Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.

Laura Bush

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

Ndamukong Suh

#59. I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.

John Wayne

#60. Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

George Berkeley

#61. Me, I am not a lady,' announced her grace. 'I have been very well educated, and I will drink port.

Georgette Heyer

#62. What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Sylvia Plath

#63. Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are well educated you have already been socialized in ways that support the power structure, which, in turn, rewards you immensely.

Noam Chomsky

#64. The idea that there's good and evil knowledge ... well, that's strictly a religious point of view. Actions can be either moral or immoral, yes, but knowledge can't be labeled that way. To a scientist, to any educated man or woman, all knowledge is morally neutral.

Dean Koontz

#65. 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

#66. Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be rather well-educated people - and quite another to be a faddist, by which I mean someone who tries to conjure a totally foreign aesthetic in a misplaced environment ...

Albert Hadley

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

Michel Patini

#68. But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

Kathy Ireland

#69. There is no group of Americans more pessimistic than working-class whites. Well over half of blacks, Latinos, and college-educated whites expect that their children will fare better economically than they have. Among working-class whites, only 44 percent share that expectation.

J.D. Vance

#70. That girl was the real me. Frightened. Worthless. A terrible friend. Terrible daughter. Well educated but so limited in ideas worth having. Beautiful yet repulsive ...
And finally honest.

Fisher Amelie

#71. When a well-educated young man first enters society he is liable to commit many errors which the world term childish, simply because he has not yet learned how childish grown men really are

Leopardi

#72. In a country where people are not educated well, there exist no horizons, there is only a heavy fog!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#73. If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.

Jonathan Haidt

#74. In the economy today, everybody understands that we need a well educated workforce. This is 2016. When we talk about public education, it can no longer be K through 12th grade. I do believe that public colleges and universities should be tuition free.

Bernie Sanders

#75. We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

Walter Cronkite

#76. Berthe was wonderfully well educated for a Frenchwoman of that period, and surprisingly handsome for a Frenchwoman of any.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#77. The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

John Ruskin

#78. I like when my man is worldly, knows the finer things in life, is well traveled, educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.

Kiana Tom

#79. You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far.

Sophie Marceau

#80. The collapse of communism in essence added tens and tens of millions of people to the world labor supply, and the people who were added had previously been getting very low income, but they were not unskilled. Many of them were fairly well educated.

Milton Friedman

#81. A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.

Helen Keller

#82. I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is ... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen ... she reminds me of my grandma.

Will.i.am

#83. Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I'm not the only one who believes this. Please. As a culture, we think we're well educated, but I'm not sure that what we've learned necessarily helps us survive.

Joel Salatin

#84. It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense.

Isaac Asimov

#85. As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

Emmylou Harris

#86. Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security.

Mark Hatfield

#87. Misuse of the Koran to provide legitimacy for violence is common, particularly in Europe, where terrorists tend not to be well-educated Muslims.

Mia Bloom

#88. Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.

John Roos

#89. The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to the needs of the more or less unfolded consciousness connected with it. In the educated it is active and well-defined; in the undeveloped it is cloudy and inchoate.

Annie Besant

#90. He was undoubtedly intelligent and well informed, but too right-wing for Grane's tastes. It was rare to find a well-educated Swede who was also a wholehearted supporter of the American Republican Party - he even expressed some sympathy for the Tea Party movement.

David Lagercrantz

#91. If you think about it, 534 members of the U.S. Congress cannot all be religious. That's just statistical nonsense. Many of them are quite well-educated.

Richard Dawkins

#92. You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.

Homer Hickam

#93. I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done in China ... I don't know who it was ... it must have been a man ... a well-educated man. I don't know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn't willing ... and God looked down ... and saw Gladys Aylward ... and God said, 'Well, she's willing.'

Gladys Aylward

#94. 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

#95. I'm not really well educated - other than an art survey course at the High School of Art and Design in New York when I was, like, 15. I don't know the history of art, but I got over intimidation from the art world when I realized that I was allowed to feel whatever I want and like whatever I want.

Marc Jacobs

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#97. I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom.

Robert H. Schuller

#98. The job of the critic, as it might have been conceived in the 1950's or 1960's, was some kind of role of moral arbiter for people, not a huge number of people, but people who were, you know, fairly educated, well-placed people.

Louis Menand

#99. One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare.

Judi Dench

#100. You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that the obvious isn't real to you anymore.

Peggy Noonan