Student Quotes

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

To be happy: the simple pursue pleasure, the common pursue riches, the uncommon pursue knowledge, and the exceptional pursue wisdom.

Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously.

The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools.

But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.

Graduate study is an intensive education. You have to be diligent and determined from the beginning to the very end.

You must go to the school or to the books or on the field because knowledge doesn't come to you, you must go to the knowledge.

You must dare greatly.

You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.

The thought that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day of your life! Time will tell, so you got to persist!

A teacher instructs;a student absorbs.A book is a companion;a good one, a messiah.

The loudest preacher in the world is your conscience, the cleverest is wisdom, the rowdiest is passion, the surest is truth, the purest is love, and the highest is God.

The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all.

The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.

A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

Student engagement is the product of motivation and active learning. It is a product rather than a sum because it will not occur if either element is missing.

The desire for knowledge begins with searching and seeking.

I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

The greatest prison in the universe is an ignorant mind.

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

It is the possibility of the dream, which quickens my spirit to take action.

Instead, every precaution was taken not to violate his rights. Remember, many administrators have no difficulty in expelling a student who utters an unwelcome opinion about the immorality of homosexuality.

You can't have a goal without determination, because without the determination the goal will die.

He had never got so much back for himself from any pupil as he did from Miss Kronborg. From the first she had stimulated him; something in her personality invariably affected him. Now that he was feeling his way toward her voice, he found her more interesting than ever before. She lifted the tedium of the winter for him, gave him curious fancies and reveries. Musically, she was sympathetic to him. Why this was true, he never asked himself. He had learned that one must take where and when one can the mysterious mental irritant that rouses one's imagination; that it is not to be had by order. She often wearied him, but she never bored him.

The best learners are the best earners.

During my school years, I was never a brilliant student, but just an average one, with only above average level of curiosity.

Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to take the bar. She doesn’t have a job. I was like, ‘How are you going to get a job there in this market?’ And she’s like, ‘I’ll wink and I’ll smile.’ She’s a pretty girl. Whether that works despite her poor grades is yet to be seen.

Your brain needs plenty of rest to function at it's optimal level. Go to sleep!

Knowledge is the eldest daughter of wisdom.

Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.

The best way to overcome your weaknesses is to turn them into strengths.

When you feel good you want to go out into the big wide world and make a positive difference. You feel love when you feel good and you want to give that love to everyone you meet. As you go along, you find that most others want what you have and they are usually very willing students, wanting to learn what you already learned so long ago.

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.