Educated Quotes
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It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
Aristotle -
Those diplomas on my wall would not be there without the GI Bill that educated my father, without the public library, without the RIPTA bus.
Gina Raimondo
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Ah, the violence: tearing, killing, ripping. Lila, between fascination and horror, spoke to me in a mixture of dialect, Italian, and very educated quotations that she had taken from who knows where and remembered by heart. The entire planet, she said, is a big Fosso Carbonario.
Elena Ferrante -
I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.
Agnes Varda -
He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.
Christine de Pizan -
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 -
Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
Robert Frost
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It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.
Angelique Kidjo -
You know, more children die under the age of five when the parents are not educated.
Angelina Jolie -
I’m convinced that a world in which girls are educated is a safer, more stable, more prosperous place.
Barack Obama -
I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
William James -
Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.
Hayley Mills -
My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.
Satyajit Ray
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To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.
LL Cool J -
An educated child earns more later in life, knows how to keep their own children from dying, produces more food, is less likely to get AIDS, and in the case of boys, is less likely to engage in armed civil conflict.
Marianne Williamson -
And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?
Plato -
If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.
Mahatma Gandhi -
There is a difference between being educated and academics.
R. Madhavan -
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
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So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.
William James -
Along with the GI Bill, which educated and housed Eisenhower's fellow veterans, the Interstate System has proved to be by far the most important economic-development strategy of the federal government.
David Broder -
The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.
Epictetus -
Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?
William Lloyd Garrison