Best 185 quotes in «educated quotes» category

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

During the mourning period after my father passed, his friends and colleagues were saying there was no way the business would survive. There was no way that a 27-year-old woman could run a company. I was so pissed that this was a conversation during a mourning period, and that a woman who was educated and working at a high level at the company wasn't considered for leadership. This was my father's life work, something I was completely connected to, and I knew I could take the reins.

Decent education in INdonesia is strictly for the elites, and those who are educated are using their knowledge to extract even more from the country, and not to improve it as a whole.

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

Finding the one is not just a feeling, it's an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend.

He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.

Do not tell me how educated you are. Tell me how much you have traveled, and I will know how educated you are.

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?" "They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

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

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

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.

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

I definitely love history. I'm not formally trained or educated in history, but you could say I did go back to college in 2008 to do Untold History of the United States. That took five years. Co-author Peter Kuznick has been teaching history for something like 35 years, at American University and other places. His group of researchers brought me into contact with a lot of books.

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.

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

If people aren't educated, they can't question. If they can't question, they can't change anything, which is great for the status quo and all the people who can question them at their own level.

If you look at the 9/11 highjackers, certainly they were educated, some even had university degrees, but nobody really checked their mothers, who were nearly all illiterate.

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.

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

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

I believe most in educated intuition, in what you get through profound experience.

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.

I have always been an avid bike rider. Even before I became an avid bike rider, I was an avid bike stealer when I was a kid. I am very educated on bikes.

I'm not of the religion but I'm educated enough to understand there is a misconception about it globally.

I'm not educated; I'd be a damn fool if I was (educated)!

Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

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

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

Intuition is educated by experience and employed by curiosity.

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

Is it possible that Jesus, unlike 98 percent of his fellow Jews, was literate and educated? Yes, it's possible.

I’m not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I’m just a kid from Mississippi.

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.

I see that one part of the education of women is health education. We know that women who are educated have much healthier families.

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

I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.

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.

It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.

It is in our incompleteness, of which we are aware, that education as a permanent process is grounded. Women and men are capable of being educated only to the extent that they are capable of recognizing themselves as unfinished.

It's generally sort of sociologically observed that the better educated people are, the more liberal they tend to be, which would suggest that professors are going to be more liberal than the general public.

It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists.

It's probably more frustrating to me as an Iranian living in America than it is when I'm over there. 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. There's a lack of knowledge about Iran and the Iranian people.

It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.