Sentence examples for educated mind from inspiring English sources

For the American educational reformer John Dewey, scepticism was "the mark and even the pose of the educated mind".

Is the precision of the killer's knife the product of an educated mind?

"There's a quote: 'a mark of an educated mind is someone who can entertain an opposing thought without agreeing.' I think that intellectual rigour is really important, and something we should continue to challenge ourselves to do".

It seems to me that the great difficulty of writing is to make the language of the educated mind express our confused ideas, half feelings, half thoughts, where we are little more than bundles of instinctive tendencies".

Another way of looking at it is to say that to predict well-known public events several years after they have occurred is not perhaps the most demanding of tasks for an educated mind.

And if one in fact finds "malicious jokes" funny, "is one therefore morally complicit?" Pigliucci thinks the best way out of this conundrum is offered by Aristotle, who said with characteristic wisdom, "it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it".

Indeed, at some tacit, unarticulated level, a dark question lurked in educated minds.

ag QUESTION FROM JILL C. LEVNER : How is it even possible with so many educated minds in Hollywood — that so many bad films and flawed films are made?

Political theology is highly adaptive and can present to even educated minds a more compelling vision of the future than the prospect of secular modernity.

But it doesn't help the world a lot to have hundreds of finely educated minds going off each year to serve themselves and Wall Street.

Thomas Jefferson and George Washington both had the 18-volume Britannica, pirated in Philadelphia by Thomas Dobson, on their shelves because, as Mr. Pappas put it, "they needed to keep abreast of the state of learning from the educated minds of the day, meaning the educated minds of Europe".