Character is a perfectly educated will. [ Novalis ]
The self-educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities. [ Isaac Disraeli ]
It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
Being educated puts one almost on a level with the commercial classes. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family. [ Rev. Thomas Scott ]
No woman is educated who is not equal to the successful management of a family. [ Burnap ]
Women have become so highly educated that nothing should surprise them except happy marriages. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
He is to be educated because he is a man, and not because he is to make shoes, nails, and pins. [ Channing ]
Taste can only be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good, but of the truly excellent. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education. [ Harriet Martineau ]
A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time. [ Fontenelle ]
Simple creatures, whose thoughts are not taken up, like those of educated people, with the care of a great museum of dead phrases, are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. [ Holmes ]
That mere will and industry can enable any man to accomplish anything is a belief common enough amongst imperfectly educated man. But no one of really cultivated intellect denies the variety of natural endowments. [ Hamerton ]
Never! never has one forgotten his pure, right educated mother. On the blue mountains of our dim childhood, toward which we ever turn and look, stand the mothers, who marked out to us from thence our life; the most blessed age must be forgotten ere we can forget the warmest heart. You wish, O women! to be ardently loved, and forever, even till death! Be, then, the mothers of your children. [ Richter ]
The mother, under whose sole influence the child is for years, from whom it acquires its tastes and character, should not only be educated, but educated in the most thorough manner, and have her mind stored with varied learning, so that she may be able to answer the multitude of questions that will be put to her by her inquisitive child on art, science, literature, and religion, and thus to stimulate his curiosity, and awaken his mind. [ E. B. Ramsay ]