Educated Quotes

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

Wit is educated insolence.

People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.

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?

I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists.

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.

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

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 failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?'

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

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.

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

Only the educated are free.

You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.