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Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. -- Norman Cousins
Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands. -- Douglas Sirk
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. -- Will Rogers
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style. -- Alan K. Simpson
My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid. -- Charles Kettering
We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. -- Charles Kettering
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
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
A truly educated man never ceases to learn. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's! -- Robert Browning
The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one. -- George Bernard Shaw
An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything. -- C. V. Wedgwood
It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Joe Paterno was a well-educated man, and he was also a man from a different time. -- Joe Posnanski
The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience. -- Karl G. Maeser
I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight. -- Pancho Villa
By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one -- Clifton Fadiman
By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one. -- Clifton Fadiman
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
I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist. -- Maynard James Keenan
No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones. -- Roberto Bolano
An educated man should know everything about something and something about everything -- C. V. Wedgwood
So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well. -- Plato
An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together. -- Lin Yutang
I would not educate Donald trump. He is a very educated man. -- Tommie Smith
I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious -- Anton Chekhov
There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe. -- George Bernard Shaw
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. -- Winston Churchill
I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man. -- Robert Andrews Millikan
A well educated man with an independent mind is a type of man liked by no government! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking. -- E. Digby Baltzell
A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired. -- Henry Ford
An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information. -- Abbott Lawrence Lowell
An educated man believing in a this-that vile sky-god rewarding him-her, but punishing your enemies with hell and fire, is uneducated. -- Fakeer Ishavardas
The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education. -- Ernest Hemingway
The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary. -- Carl Jung
An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things. -- Henry Ford
One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man. -- Marion Barry
It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits -- Aristotle
In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know. -- Nicolas Gomez Davila
In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know. -- Nicolas Gomez Davila
The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects. -- Chanakya
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. -- Jacques Barzun
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing. -- Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite. -- Jorge Luis Borges
One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. -- Loren Eiseley
I'm not an educated man, but I've read some history. Every kingdom comes up bloody. Every castle is built on a pile of bones. When I came out here, LA was nothing. Back east I was a gangster, out here I'm god. -- Mickey Cohen
Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man. -- Peter Drucker
A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...'' He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant. -- Neil Gaiman
The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
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An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the ambiguity that surrounds so many important issues, and a willingness to make the best decisions he can in the face of uncertainty and doubt". -- Derek Bok
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. -- Winston Churchill
Educated men are so impressive. -- William Shakespeare
She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated. -- W. L. George
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass. -- Pearl S. Buck
No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction. -- Moses Mendelssohn
I am for Obama, all the way. I don't support Obama just because he is a black man; I support him because he is an educated black man. He is making black people proud. -- Tony Yayo
I like when my man is worldly, knows the finer things in life, is well traveled, educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers. -- Kiana Tom
I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves. -- John Taylor Gatto
Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he's also a man of deep sympathy and empathy for those who are lost and vulnerable, but especially under-educated youth of all cultures and stripes. -- Michael Eric Dyson
Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked it, and the educated man counted in his circle, however large or small it was, as the mighty, the powerful, the imposing one: for he was an authority. -- Max Stirner
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination? -- James Fenimore Cooper
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor. -- D. H. Lawrence
[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things. -- Jim Jarmusch
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen. -- George Bernard Shaw
I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide. -- William James
No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past. -- Will Durant
Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains. -- Beatrice Webb
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue. -- Aristophanes
Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred. -- Marek Edelman
Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action. -- Napoleon Hill
If there was criticism about [Oscar Wilde], it was because it was written by a straight man who wasn't very educated about the gay world. -- Kevin Sessums
The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions. -- Lucy Stone
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. -- John Jay Chapman
Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down. -- John Kenneth Galbraith

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