Student Quotes
1244 Student quotes by 1008 unique authors
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Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the…
— Harold Bloom
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I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball…
— Shimon Peres
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I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.
— William Westmoreland
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When I was an art student in the early 60′s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was…
— Bill Griffith
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We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order to grow the top-line. We basically…
— John B. Larson
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The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings
— Lincoln Steffens
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I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and the copy of his admission records to show whether he got any…
— Mike Huckabee
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I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I…
— Alan Shepard
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The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I…
— Saul Bellow
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I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don’t…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover…
— Brian De Palma
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Lenin had taken part in Jewish student meetings in Switzerland thirty-five years before.
— Chaim Weizmann
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My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just…
— Gabriel Mann
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Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.
— Brian Tracy
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A student undergoing a word association test was asked why a snowstorm put him in mind of sex. He replied frankly: "Because everything does."
— Unknown Author
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This is an historic day for American public education and for our nation as we begin the journey to level the academic playing field for…
— Unknown Author
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We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it…
— David Warlick
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One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you a…
— Gautama Buddha
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Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. you will not find me in the stupas, not…
— Kabir
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Princeton has made an enormous difference in my life, and I am delighted to be able to express my gratitude in such a tangible way.…
— Gordon Wu
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It is hard to be an apprentice to an unfriendly professor, or even one whose warmth or tolerance wears thin when the going gets hard…
— Robert Audi
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The story, I like to say and remember, is always smarter than you—there will be patterns of theme, image, and idea that are much savvier…
— Lucy Corin
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Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it
— Jay-Z
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People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.
— Doug E. Fresh
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I just think we can't do enough of this [student exchanges]... And when you get young children traveling internationally, I think they come back different…
— Arne Duncan
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