Be Educated Quotes

To the extent that I am genuinely educated, I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes and the average pedagogue teaches.

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas

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

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

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

It may literally turn out that a Hottentot, an educated and literate Hottentot it is true, but one who is a member of a relatively primitive society, would be able to make bombs.

...but we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation-liberation enabling each of us to fulfill our capacity so as to be free to create within and around ourselves.

I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.

A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

We’re taught at an early age that we’re not good enough. That someone else has to choose us in order for us to be…what? Blessed? Rich? Certified? Legitimized? Educated? Partnership material?

To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.

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

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

I believe that it's vital for children and teens to be educated, to be given information to help them understand the impacts humans are having on our water, soil, and air.

In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even at the price of his literary vocation?

No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime and anywhere under any circumstances.

We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

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

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated.

A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability.

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.

The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.

I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.

Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.

What happened in the Western world was that Plato ceased to be the way people thought. Aristotle was rediscovered, and the modern, educated world moved toward Aristotelian thinking.

One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.

The fact is there are many women who nod politely, even agree openly within their male-dominated often highly educated cultures, but vote their own minds.

What I like about electronic music is you don't really need to be that learned or educated in any particular context. You can just make sound, noise even, whatever it may be.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

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.

We get educated out of creativity.

If I'm educated and passionate about a topic, I'll answer the question. But I also know when to shut the hell up.

Our viewers are very educated, they can tell if I train or not.

We want to emulate the educated class, even if we don't think of educated people as a class these days.

We are educated to be amazed by the infinite variety of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the beginning of being flabbergasted by its unity.

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

A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.

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.

Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.

The future belongs to the educated.

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

We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.

Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.

While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.