Top 393 Educated Quotes

The more educated we are, the less we are prepared to tolerate views contrary to our own.

Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.

I’ve always looked up to John Terry; he’s a massive defender and a rock. His one-v-one defending and reading of the game have really educated me. I watch a lot of clips of him.

As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.

As an artist, sometimes you’d rather not do the interview. You might feel the interviewer isn’t educated on you… or what you’re about.

We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.

Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn’t good. That’s why they had such great boats.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

I don’t really care anymore: I’m fiercely proud of the fact I’ve been able to make a career despite the fact I wasn’t born into privately educated schools.

I educated myself and came back to Miami after law school, got married, and started a business.

Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers.

Because of England’s lack of social mobility, unless they make truly heroic efforts, writers who are privately educated and then go on to Oxbridge or an institution like the BBC will generally embarrass themselves when they attempt to have a go at working- or lower middle-class characters.

Fortunately I didn’t get educated because if I’d got educated I’d be an educated fool now.

There’s this incredibly young, dynamic, educated population in Iran that is essentially pretty pro-American.

I come from a very affluent family. I have been educated in one of the finest institutions of the world. Money was never a factor in my life: by the grace of God, I was blessed with a golden spoon.

It’s important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.

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

To people like me, educated in post-war Britain, free speech has been a firm premise of the British way of life.

The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B. White occupied the apex of essay writing.

In the longer term, immigrants contribute more to the government’s coffers than they receive in social spending. Moreover, these programs are not just welfare or a handout, but also an investment, helping ensure that families are healthy, educated, and able to work and support themselves over the course of generations.

Most educated people are not set up to listen or change their minds about politics, however sensible they are in other fields.

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

Scars are a truly beautiful thing. Yes, they can be a little ugly on the outside, but scars show that you’re a survivor, that you made it through something, and not only did you make it through, but now you’re stronger and wiser and more educated because of that tough time that you went through.

I love to learn, I love to be educated on different levels.

If there are two things you must be by the time you hit your 40s – be kind and be educated. If you don’t have time for both – be kind!

You want educated women if you are going to have a modern society.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

I did all sorts of things that you wouldn’t normally find on an engineer’s docket, but it made an educated person out of me.

It’s hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell ’em they’re irresponsible and lazy. And who’s gonna wanna do that? Because that’s what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.

People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don’t know what the word ‘education’ means… ‘Educo’ means to bring out.

As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, ‘I want to do movies’ to ‘I want to work. In whatever.’

We don’t live in a primitive society any more. Many of us are lucky enough to be educated. We also realize that gender and sexuality is a spectrum.

As I can testify, living in a foreign country takes you way out of your comfort zone. It’s the little things, like ordering food in a different language, buying petrol or learning to drive on the other side of the road, but they all add up to making you a more rounded, educated person.

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin’s most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.

My mother went to university, my father didn’t. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he’s worldly.

I hail from a middle class educated family and now that God is kind to me by giving me enough money, I want to share it with others.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It’s about being educated.

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

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

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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.

I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they’re clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I’m not worried about whether I’m clever.

I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.

Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So when I arrived Australia, I thought, ‘Oh my God, everything is different from what I was told.’ Since then, I started to think differently.

I know that people in Dubai are particularly well read, educated and intelligent and that the audience in front of me will come looking forward to an evening that is different from watching a film. That is the kind of crowd that goes to a theatre or a play and I am hoping to see many of them in Dubai.

I’m a big guy: I look like a linebacker, you know? But no one cares, really, that I’m educated. I have a copy of ‘Fire Next Time’ by James Baldwin in my bag. I have an Ibsen play in there, too. I have to walk through this world with that duality all the time, that I live in two different worlds.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn’t realise I was going to get educated.

The Margaret Thatchers of this country made it through – like I did – because of the grammar school system, which gave the opportunity of a lifetime to working-class kids. It put them on a level playing field with the privately educated kids, and opened up the top universities to them.

When women are more educated, the nation progresses.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‘mother wit’ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

Yes, being educated is definitely an advantage. But having said that, I’ve met so many people in life who haven’t done very well at school but who are still really bright.

If you think of politics as ‘serious people focusing seriously on the most important questions,’ which is the default mode of most educated people and the media (but not the less-educated public which has better instincts), then your model of reality is badly wrong.