Student Quotes

1244 Student quotes by 1008 unique authors

Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd… — Aldrich Ames
Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist,… — Archibald Geikie
What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears. — Unknown Author
My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa, so that after… — Wallace Carothers
From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the whole empire of… — John Gorrie
From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable lines of descent;… — Unknown Author
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting… — Hermann von Helmholtz
When you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student. — Byron Katie
I think people can handle 150 to 200 miles a week. But something has to give somewhere. If he's a student, how's he going to… — Bill Bowerman
Teacher is not a great popular person. They teach what they know and make people better than them. Teacher must create a student better than… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
A Zen student asked his roshi the most important element of Zen.The roshi replied, "Attention." "Yes, thank you," the student replied. "But can you tell… — Dan Millman
The student should bear in mind that the very essence of consciousness is constantly to identify itself with the Not-Self, and as constantly to re-assert… — Arthur E. Powell
My father used to say the people of Swat and the teachers would continue to educate our children until the last room, the last teacher… — Malala Yousafzai
A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student. — Robert Louis Stevenson
My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was very… — Ernest Gallo
The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small… — Gustav Nossal
My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at… — Nicholas Delbanco
A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The… — William Stafford
Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in… — Unknown Author
The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen. — Unknown Author
I saw Nicki for the first time and, like, literally fell in love. She had this snap-back hat on that said 'Minaj.' She used to… — Drake
I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist.… — Ian Rankin
There is a distinction between what may be called a problem and what may be considered an exercise. The latter serves to drill a student… — Howard Whitley Eves
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher. — Bill Moyers
I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint… — Richard M. Nixon

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