Welcome to Educated Quotes, a curated collection of insightful and inspiring quotes on the theme of education. Throughout history, thinkers, scholars, and leaders have shared profound reflections on the importance of learning, the power of knowledge, and the transformative impact of education on individuals and societies alike. Whether you’re a student seeking motivation, an educator looking for wisdom to impart to your students, or simply someone who appreciates the beauty of words, you’ll find a wealth of thought-provoking quotes here.
Education is often regarded as the cornerstone of progress, enabling individuals to broaden their horizons, unlock their potential, and contribute meaningfully to the world around them. From philosophers and poets to scientists and activists, the voices represented in this collection offer diverse perspectives on the value of learning and the pursuit of knowledge. As you explore these quotes, may you find inspiration, encouragement, and perhaps even a new perspective on the transformative power of education. Without further ado, delve into the wisdom of Educated Quotes and let the words of the wise ignite your passion for lifelong learning and personal growth.
Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton. George III of the United Kingdom
If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? Virginia Woolf
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound. Zoltan Kodaly
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear. Jiddu Krishnamurti
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society. Queen Rania of Jordan
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. Alan Turing
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. Thomas Jefferson
President Joe Biden’s administration is led by this particular brand of educated and out-of-touch staffers, freshly released from leftist ideology indoctrination camps – otherwise known as colleges and universities. Lauren Boebert
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. Al McGuire
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media and make the right moves that will help them. The physical world is similar to the virtual world in many cases. It’s about being aware. We can prevent many debacles if we’re educated. Amy Jo Martin
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
I believe this passionately: that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it. Ken Robinson
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. Chinua Achebe
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. Lyndon B. Johnson
‘Good English’ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another. C. S. Lewis
Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they – not someone else – must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated. Ernest Istook
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. Leo Rosten
My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated. Sundar Pichai
I know a lot of people think I’m dumb. Well, at least I ain’t no educated fool. Leon Spinks
Unfortunately, there is a tendency among political elites to distrust the opinions of ordinary people. They are perceived to base their views on dark instincts and unjustified fears, rather than on rational choices. European voters, however, are highly educated, and it is ridiculous to suppose they can be easily fooled or manipulated. Geert Wilders
People will pay more to be entertained than educated. Johnny Carson
You get educated by traveling. Solange Knowles
Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry. Margaret Spellings
A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours. Aga Khan IV
I’m not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I’m just a kid from Mississippi. Shepard Smith
I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley, and dropped behind the peak. The snows that fell in winter always melted in the spring. Tara Westover
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion. John Ruskin
I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn’t know how to express that. Robert Redford
Peace and security in the Asia-Pacific will turn on whether China emerges as a xenophobic, chauvinistic force, bitter and hostile to the West because it tried to slow down or abort its development, or whether it is educated and involved in the ways of the world – more cosmopolitan, more internationalized and outward looking. Lee Kuan Yew
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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. Maya Angelou
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. Zaha Hadid
I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool. Bob Marley
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. Ernest Dimnet
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
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
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. Aristotle
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. Kyle Carpenter
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. Peter Tosh
I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong? Willie Nelson
You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by educated Negroes, too. Medgar Evers
I’m self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream – to have class. Tina Turner
Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same. Vince Lombardi
They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know. Nikolai Gogol
To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us. Caroline Kennedy
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. Margaret Mead
But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues – political issues, gender issues – that people need to be educated about. Anita Hill
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. Plato
It is not a coincidence that we have managed to send rockets into space, but our literacy rate continues to be below the world average. It is because governments don’t want an educated electorate. Because if we get educated, we will start asking the right questions. And they don’t want the right questions being asked. Anubhav Sinha
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. George Santayana
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets. George S. Patton
The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing. Marc Chagall
Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold. Mark Twain
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. Carl Rogers
Kids are incredibly expensive. But it pays off later when they are better educated, bigger, and better-looking than you. And find you incessantly boring and uncool. Denis Leary
No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Nelson Mandela
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it. John Henrik Clarke
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong. Russell Baker
An educated people can be easily governed. Frederick the Great
I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight. Pancho Villa
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
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn’t really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn’t control them as easily. Maynard James Keenan
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. Sonia Sotomayor
Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree. Clint Eastwood
I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists. Marquis de Condorcet
But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions. Eric Alterman
I’m not dumb, I just wasn’t educated. Michael Oher
We lack an educated, resilient citizenry capable of navigating the increasing complexities of daily life. Ben Sasse
A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a shared frame of reference among educated people. Roger Scruton
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. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
My parents were educated in the Turkish system and went straight from high school to medical school; my mom, who had skipped a grade, was dissecting corpses at age seventeen. Growing up in America, I think I envied my parents’ education. By comparison, everything I did in school seemed so sort of low-stakes and infantilizing. Elif Batuman
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. Carl Jung
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. Michel de Montaigne
Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty. Kathleen Blanco
As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don’t get our civility back, we’re in trouble. Emmylou Harris
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
If you come to our country, don’t expect to be taken care of, to be looked after, that your children will be educated without charge. Marine Le Pen
You need to be aware, educated, and willing to do whatever it takes to remain healthy and keep the body healthy. Rich Piana
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. Chanakya
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. Norman Cousins
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. Will Rogers
Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people. James L. Farmer, Jr.
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. John Dewey
My heroes always are mostly my parents – my father especially, and my mom, who’s passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life. Dikembe Mutombo
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge
Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as ‘?10 poms.’ Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians – to be honest, educated white people – to come and live in Australia. Hugh Jackman
Education is the key to the future: You’ve heard it a million times, and it’s not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects. Alex Tabarrok
America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world. Barack Obama
Only the educated are free. Epictetus
A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children’s own education. Azim Premji
It is on us to support our children and early childhood educators as we work toward having a healthier and better educated state where people have the opportunity to live a more abundant and purposeful life. Roy Cooper
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception. Franz Grillparzer
The police can’t protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there’s nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will. Frank Abagnale
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. Gilbert K. Chesterton
I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. Michelle Hunziker
Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense. Vikas Swarup
Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated. The Weeknd
I started getting interested in the craft and watching old movies, and they’re the ones that reach out to me the most – films like ‘Cool Hand Luke’ and ‘On the Waterfront.’ So I start watching all of these, and I was getting educated, and I started being interested in this acting thing, if that’s what they call it. Barry Keoghan
