People Quotes

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

~ Pelé

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

~ Michael Moore

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

~ Richard Dawkins

As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.

~ Henry Giroux

We need to have a regulatory budget in America that limits the amount of regulations on our economy. We need to repeal and replace Obamacare, and we need to improve higher education so that people can have access to the skills they need for 21st century jobs.

~ Marco Rubio

I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.

~ Heather Watts

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

~ Karl Rove

I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.

~ Haile Gebrselassie

I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

~ Wilma Mankiller

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

~ Alexander Pope

I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.

~ Timothy Thomas Fortune

Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'

~ Matt Groening

There are so many people around the world in need of high-quality education and really starving for education.

~ Daphne Koller

People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare.

~ Azim Premji

The problem is that we are trying to prepare people for the new economy using a higher education system built for the old economy. As a result, many high-skilled, high-paying industries suffer from a shortage of labor, while too many low-paying industries suffer from a surplus.

~ Marco Rubio

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

~ Daniel Webster

Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real people; including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.

~ Bob Barr

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

~ Gregory Bateson

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

~ Leon Spinks

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

~ Alcee Hastings

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

~ Anton Chekhov

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

~ George S. Patton

Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.

~ Michael Eric Dyson

I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think we'll appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didn't know anything about other religions 100 years ago.

~ Ray Kurzweil

Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask, 'What if?' and 'Why not?' They're not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don't disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better.

~ Travis Bradberry

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

~ Joyce Meyer

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

~ Kiana Tom

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

~ Shakti Gawain

What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.

~ Meghan Daum

If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.

~ Will.i.am

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

~ Eric Ries

I think we do need to try to not just rely on the central bank to, in its wisdom, adjust interest rates, but allow for people to avoid being exposed to inflation risk.

~ Robert J. Shiller

While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.

~ Jason Calacanis

If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.

~ Jay Griffiths

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

~ Bob Woodward

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

~ Harry Dean Stanton

You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.

~ Ben Carson

While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline.

~ Henry Rollins

Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.

~ Vincent Bugliosi