#educated

In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#concerned #democracy #eat #educated #egypt

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#educated #great #just #make #occasion

The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have. ↗

— Willie Mays

#baseball #being #business #business world #challenge

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

#came #company #educated #enjoy #fame

We must encourage people to get educated, to get tested, to get involved in the fight against AIDS. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#aids #educated #encourage #fight #get

I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#because #been #educated #exposed #find

You have to be hopeful that people will be more educated in how they buy things, and hopefully more luxury brands will start to think that way on a longer-term basis. ↗

— Stella McCartney

#brands #buy #educated #hopeful #hopefully

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#including #interested #otherwise #people #poetry