Top 393 Educated Quotes

Schooling should not be left to the whim or wealth of village elders. I believe that we should fund all schools in the U.S. with our national resources. All these kids are being educated to be Americans, not citizens of Minneapolis or San Francisco.
Jonathan Kozol
It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James Baldwin
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.
Greg Mortenson
The educated Southerner has no use for an ‘r’, except at the beginning of a word.
Mark Twain
The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.
Neal Stephenson
When judging a horoscope, it is of prime importance that we take into consideration the social and racial standing of the individual, for configurations which are of great significance in the horoscope of an educated Caucasian may mean little or nothing in the figure of a Chinese Coolie and vice versa.
Max Heindel
When I became more aware and educated on the state of youth sports and the inability for so many who want to participate, I knew I wanted to be involved.
Jesse Palmer
Being educated in the United States gave me a good understanding of American culture. I think I got a lot of influence from the entrepreneurial mind in the United States.
Masayoshi Son
Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.
Anne M. Mulcahy
I love being educated by historical novels.

I love being educated by historical novels.
Debra Stephenson
Getting to know Vixen has been an amazing learning experience, and I am glad that I am close to her so that I am able to be further educated on social issues and see them through her eyes.
Aquaria
Humans believe so many lies because we aren’t aware. We ignore the truth or we just don’t see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn’t allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.
Don Miguel Ruiz
My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.
Adnan Sami
Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to the activity of the astral body and its reaction on the physical; their ever-increasing frequency is merely the result of its evolution among educated people.
Annie Besant
I’m a workaholic. I’m a Capricorn, It’s my nature, And I’m convent educated: I sew better than any nanny we’ve ever had.
Princess Michael of Kent
I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
Dave Barry
We have an educated and cynical electorate.
Leo Varadkar
Every educated person is a future enemy.
Martin Bormann
I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.
David Frum
My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we’d go around from shearing shed to shearing shed. My mother always wanted us to be educated, so I went to a school.
Jason Clarke
I’m a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
Youssou N’Dour
Over time, my students have gotten richer and more educated.
Anna Deavere Smith
The northern part of Sweden is considered more isolated, not so sociable, not so educated, more unemployment, very working-class, and people drink more than rest of Sweden; that’s the kind of area I’m from.
Asa Larsson
Marylanders are among the nation’s hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.
Larry Hogan
I am not musically educated yet. I don’t read – I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
Imelda May
No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
Nelson Mandela
In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
Walter Annenberg
It’s kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it’s educated me a little bit more.
Hugo Weaving
Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but yet it does appear to me that the bent to worship is an integral part of man’s nature.
Annie Besant
I would like to make sure, first of all, that our women in the informal sector – I mean, these are the farmers and the traders; many of them are not educated, many of them lacking literacy – be able to give them better working conditions. And we’ve done a lot to be able to achieve that.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
There is a difference between being educated and academics.
R. Madhavan
People who lived in the 1920s and ’30s and ’40s were not so different from us. In some ways, they were probably better citizens than we are. They had longer attention spans, for example. Educated people tended to read a bit more than we did.
Timothy D. Snyder
They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.
James L. Buckley
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou
When people make the educated argument that things should go back, it’s more like going back to a feeling they had when they heard some of the music that came out. Not going back to that music being rehashed. That’s stupid.
Adrian Younge
The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles.
Henry Sweet
I wasn’t an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to provide a frame of reference that wasn’t the usual frame of reference of the New York art world and Europe.
Michael Heizer
I believe that it is girls’ human rights to go to school to be educated, minimum, until they are 18.
Guler Sabanci
Anything about Iraq is a death sentence at the box office… You can’t make movies about an unpopular war while the war is still going on – people don’t want to pay to get depressed, though they sometimes will go to movies to get educated.
Rod Lurie
Irish people are educated not only about artistry but l

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
Fiona Shaw
People always told me that nothing would match my face, my structure other than roles of sophisticated, educated women. I felt it was an insult to me.
Roopa Ganguly
When I was younger, I was impressed by those who were educated, accomplished, successful, and applauded by the world. But over the years, I have come to the realization that I am far more impressed by those wonderful and blessed souls who are truly good and without guile.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James Baldwin
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
John Dewey
I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I’m a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.
Shailene Woodley
I’m not really well educated – other than an art survey course at the High School of Art and Design in New York when I was, like, 15. I don’t know the history of art, but I got over intimidation from the art world when I realized that I was allowed to feel whatever I want and like whatever I want.
Marc Jacobs
As we’ve come along, we’ve educated our audience, getting them to understand that brands do not compromise entertainment. For us, they enhance it. They enable it.
Rhett McLaughlin
We really want our kids, and our youth, to understand that one, knowledge is power, and two, you don’t have to be shy about being educated, and being ahead of the learning curve.
Tobias Harris
Even though most people won’t be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.
Brian Kernighan
My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated… they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.
Patti Smith
That’s Anil’s path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.
Michael Ondaatje
I love a smart, educated woman.
Romeo Miller
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Chanakya
Bumble really sets the stage for an empowered and modern way to connect, which educated and forward-thinking groups of people have really gravitated to.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
I think I feel fortunate to have been very well educated in terms of strength and training while I was at school at Stanford, and I think our strength coaches here on the Colts do a great job. A big part of being able to withstand hits is making sure that you’ve got a good base.
Andrew Luck
It is my idea that the public needs to be better educated about the nature of scientific inquiry and how the scientific process works. I firmly believe that this is the only effective way forward to combat the widespread distrust in facts and science.
Priyamvada Natarajan
I don’t think I’d really talked about politics – governmental politics specifically – very often, and it was a bit of a stretch for me to do so for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that I’m not that well-versed or educated in politics.
Andrew W.K.