educated quotes

To read Wilson†is to be instructed and amused in the highest sensethat is educated.

-James Atlas
  Of Edmund Wilson. In the NewYork Times, 28  Jul, reviewing David Castronovo Edmund Wilson (1984).

Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

-Jane Austen
  Mansfield Park, ch.34.

   The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

- Allan Bloom
  The Closing of the American Mind, preface.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

- G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
  In the NewYork Times,1 Feb.

   To be able to be caught up into the world of thoughtthat is educated.

- Edith Hamilton
Quoted in the Saturday Evening Post, 27 Sep1958.

Education is another sun to the educated.

-Heraclitus   fl.500
Fragment quoted in H Diels and W Kranz (eds) Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, vol.1 (1951),181, no.134.

A person of bourgeois origin goes through life with some expectation of getting what he wants, within reasonable limits. Hence the fact that in times of stress 'educated'people tend to come to the front.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  The Road to Wigan Pier, ch.3.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated, till it attain years of discretion.

-John Ruskin
  Time andTide, letter13.

Nobodycansayaword against Greek: it stamps a manat once as an educated gentleman.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Lady Britomart Undershaft to Stephen. Major Barbara, act1.

A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who†are thought highly educated and who have†been expressing their incredulityat the illiteracy of scientists.Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative.

- C(harles) P(ercy), 1st Baron Snow
  TheTwo Cultures, Rede Lecture, ch.1.

An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy.

-WilliamThomas Stead
  'Government byJournalism', in the Contemporary Review, May. Collected in A Journalist onJournalism (1892).