Fareed Zakaria Quotes.

1. "If you listen to the political discourse in America today, you would think that all our problems have been caused by the Mexicans of the Chinese or the Muslims. The reality is that we have caused our own problems. Whatever has happened has been caused by isolating ourselves or blaming others."
- Quote by Fareed Zakaria

2. "Politically Incorrect was the name of the show Bill Maher hosted in the 1990s. It's also an apt description of the man himself. Now host of -- HBO's hit show Real Time, I find Maher to be one of the sharpest observers of American politics and life in general out there. It doesn't mean I always agree with him. I always find him funny, though."
- Quote by Fareed Zakaria

3. "I should have paid greater attention to my mentor in graduate school, Samuel Huntington, who once explained that Americans never recognize that, in the developing world, the key is not the kind of government — communist, capitalist, democratic, dictatorial — but the degree of government. That absence of government is what we are watching these days, from Libya to Iraq to Syria. (Why they still hate us, 13 years later, Washington Post, 09/05/2014)"
- Quote by Fareed Zakaria

4. "The crucial challenge is to learn how to read critically, analyze data, and formulate ideas—and most of all to enjoy the intellectual adventure enough to be able to do them easily and often."
- Fareed Zakaria, In Defense of a Liberal Education

5. "We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. —E. O. Wilson"
- Fareed Zakaria, In Defense of a Liberal Education

6. "the central virtue of a liberal education is that it teaches you how to write, and writing makes you think. Whatever you do in life, the ability to write clearly, cleanly, and reasonably quickly will prove to be an invaluable skill."
- Fareed Zakaria, In Defense of a Liberal Education

7. "As John Adams famously wrote during the American Revolution, I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain. So maybe today they’re writing apps rather than studying poetry, but that’s an adjustment for the age."
- Fareed Zakaria, In Defense of a Liberal Education

8. "Being forced to write clearly means, first, you have to think clearly."
- Fareed Zakaria, In Defense of a Liberal Education

9. "liberal education should give people the skills that will help them get ready for their sixth job, not their first job."
- Fareed Zakaria, In Defense of a Liberal Education

10. "Frederick Douglass saw the same connection. When his master heard that young Frederick was reading well, he was furious, saying, Learning will spoil the best nigger in the world. If he learns to read the Bible it will forever unfit him to be a slave. Douglass recalled that he instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom."
- Fareed Zakaria, In Defense of a Liberal Education