College Quotes

Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and be part of the change.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have many intelligent people who lack good characters.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I will miss younot because you taught me,not because you helped me on all steps of education;but only becauseyou made me a leader to lead as an perfect Electrical Engineer.

~ Hasil Paudyal

You have no idea how many men are spoiled by what is called education. For the most part, colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. If Shakespeare had graduated at Oxford, he might have been a quibbling attorney, or a hypocritical parson.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

The problem with studying is that it gets in the way of education.

~ Neel Burton

Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.

~ Gloria Steinem

Collegiate life presents a student with innumerable opportunities to engender personal growth by responding to a dynamic social, athletic, and academic environment. Students instigate personal development by making calculated and rash personal decisions pertaining to what activities to pursue and by measuring their string of reactions to new experiences.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.An African American Studies class that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

As long as high schools strive to list the number of Ivy League schools their graduates attend and teachers pile on work without being trained to identify stress-related symptoms, I fear for our children’s health. I am not mollified by the alums of my daughter’s school who return to tell everyone that the rigor of high school prepared them for college, making their first year easier than they’d anticipated.If they make it that far.

~ Candy Schulman

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.

~ Harold Bloom

And the final product of our training must be neither a psychologist nor a brick mason, but a man. And to make men, we must have ideals, broad, pure, and inspiring ends of living, not sordid money-getting... The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not fame.

~ W.e.b. Du Bois

Education leads to intellectual life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everyone must be given the opportunity to think, read and write.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be passionate persistent in the pursuit of your dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May you have strength to complete studies.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected.

~ Pawan Mishra

Aim for the stars. You will sooner reach the moon.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Graduate study is an intensive education.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

~ Criss Jami

We find paradise in every library and bookshop.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Curiosity is the beginning of all creativity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Curiosity is the art of creativity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I see the beatitudes of books displayed on a bookshelf.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I had an absurd desire to go down to her and make sure she was all right, and stay with her until dawn. I also had a fierce wish to bludgeon the two frat boys to death with a shovel.

~ Molly Ringle

My Miracle, living through a Traumatic brain Injury

~ Rodney Barnes

Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Ah college years, those were the days. Pure freedom ... leaving home for the first time…the parties…”What about the tutorials, the lectures, the large building with all the books called the ‘library’?”“Is that what those were?” Gerry blithely replied.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

...Come on let’s see the degree.” Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming her a Master of Art. “Imagine working for years to obtain a piece of paper we can hardly read ” Katherine joked. “And to officially declare you have talent ” Suzy returned.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.

~ R. Albert Mohler Jr.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

~ John Green

I wondered ...if meeting people with creativity and passion when you were at an impressionable enough age actually kind of ruined you for life among normal people. For a long time, I'd searched the world, thinking I could start up new friendships like the ones I'd had before. But I never met people like that again. I know people will think that's what everyone believes about their college friends, but it's true. Maybe we're like flowers that open up at that brief moment in our lives, and after that, we close up again, one by one.

~ Jennifer Finney Boylan

I think my degrees in Theology and Psychology qualified me for nothing, but probably prepared me for everything.

~ Brooke Bida

Living independent might come as appalling as the word to anyone but me. The one who thinks it's a cool idea and worth it, has sure forgotten that independence comes with a price. If one doesn't still agree, you gotta try staying at a hostel.

~ Parul Wadhwa

History has been stolen from us and replaced with guilt inducing lies.

~ Stefan Molyneux

When colleges, both within the Hudson Valley and throughout the country, encouraged women to do little beyond attaining their Mrs. degree in Husbandry, Annandale offered rigorous and prestigious degrees irrespective of gender.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Carmen: “I want you to leave me alone, but not ignore me. I want you to miss me when I go away to college, but not be sad. I want you to stay exactly the same, but not be lonely or alone. I want to do the leaving, and not have you ever leave me.

~ Ann Brashares

Adversity quickens the mind, awakens the spirit and strength the soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita