Funny Exam Quotes

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  Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

  Benjamin Spock

  Positive, Family, Trust

  The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

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• A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

  Louis Pasteur

  Funny, Philosophy, Drinking

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners". Book by Geoff Tibballs, 2004.

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• We look up for inspiration, down for desperation, right and left for information.

  Tyga

  Inspiration, Information, Looks

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• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

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• I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

  Bill Gates

  Ironic, Microsoft, Exam

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• The only people who never fail are those who never try

  Ilka Chase

  Inspirational, Positive, Failure

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• Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Education, Teaching, Knowledge

  'Lacon' (1820) vol. 1, no. 322

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• Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Procrastination

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• The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ignorance, Study

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1824). “Posthumous Poems”, p.367

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• I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

  Mary Leakey

  School, Exam

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• Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Learning, Ignorance

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Positive Thinking, Criticism, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.24, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

  Plato

  Graduation, Education, Appreciation

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.12, University Press of America

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• Science does not know its debt to imagination.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Imagination, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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  You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Self-trust is the first secret of success.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Success, Trust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.148, Harvard University Press

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• There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Reading, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.233, Harvard University Press

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• I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Audio CD "Woody Allen: Stand-Up Comic 1964-1968", 1999.

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• Every burned book enlightens the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, World, Censorship

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• After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.

  Karl von Frisch

  Philosophy, Vienna, Munich

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• Being #‎ IGNORANT is not so much a SHAME, as being UNWILLING to LEARN to do things THE #‎ RIGHT WAY.

  Shiv Khera

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Way

  FaceBook post by Shiv Khera from Jan 26, 2015

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  If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

  Amy Tan

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.47, Penguin

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• Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.

  Confucius

  Men, Clothes, Study

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• Resolve to perform what you ought;
  perform without fail what you resolve.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Priorities, Advice, Failing

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.68

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• I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate.

  Daniela Hantuchova

  School, Years, Half

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