Lewis Grizzard
Author, Humorist
"I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence."
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Educated
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Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"I was educated once - it took me years to get over it."
Muhammad
Religious Leader
"Do not tell me how educated you are. Tell me how much you have traveled, and I will know how educated you are."
John F. Kennedy
Politician
"Only an educated and informed people will be a free people."
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"Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity."
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"I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person."
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"No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible."
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"I’m convinced that a world in which girls are educated is a safer, more stable, more prosperous place."
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"They are afraid of educated women. They are afraid of the power of knowledge."
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"Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world."
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"To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity."
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"Children must be educated by love, not punishment."
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"An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things."
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"The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor."
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"I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious"
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"How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science."
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"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."
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"The more educated the people, the freer they are."
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"I'm not educated; I'd be a damn fool if I was (educated)!"
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"I would not educate Donald trump. He is a very educated man."
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"When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society."
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"According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions."
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"I educated myself. To me, school was boring."
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"All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings."
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