College Quotes

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  Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

  Christian D. Larson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

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• Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

  Mark Twain

  People, Going To College

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Fool, College Life, Fools And Foolishness

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• If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Education, Sex

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• College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Judgment, Refuge

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• A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Motivational Sports, School

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• No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.

  Horatio Alger

  Wall, Years, Four

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Teacher, Educational

  Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015

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• No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Inspirational, Graduation, Education

  1967 In Partisan Review, Summer issue.

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• College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Students, Drink, Fountain

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• I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.

  Agnes de Mille

  Inspirational, Thinking, Justice

  Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.79, New York Review of Books

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• Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Money, Educational

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• Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Education, Pebbles, Diamond

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.676, Library of Alexandria

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• I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.

  Bruce Lee

  Education, Philosophy, Teaching

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• I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

  Phil Mickelson

  Sports, Thinking, Important

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• Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

  Paul Fussell

  Native American, People, Car

  Paul Fussell (1984). “Class”

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• College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

  George Gobel

  Inspirational, Teenager, School

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• One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

  Dennis Prager

  Profound, Mind, Belief

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• A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Graduation, Senior, Education

  "Art of Communicating Ideas". Book by William Joseph Grace, p. 389, 1952.

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• You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Inspiring, Graduation

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1902). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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