Need Some Inspiring Quotes about the Age of Adolescence?
Learn What You Excel At and ‘Find Your Thing’
That is what we should tell you // but we don't. We say instead get a good education so you can get a good job.
here are a few other things we should say ...
Be curious AL.ways! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it!
- Sudie Back
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
- Robert Frost
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
- Albert Einstein
It is only the mediocre student who does not surpass his master.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Education doesn't make you happy and .. nor does freedom. We don't become happy because we're free, if we are, or because we've been educated, if we have, but because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears ... it tells us where delights are lurking ... convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance what-so-ever -- that of the mind -- and gives us the assurance, the confidence, to walk the path our mind -- our educated mind -- offers.
- Iris (movie)
There were people up there ... out there? .. who had a good time in life. I was beginning to realize I want one of them. I just didn't fit in. I didn't fit in at my old school. I definitely didn't fit at my new one.
- About A Boy (movie)
H.P. Lovecraft is for the summer between junior and senior years in high school. Cosmic fear hits you about then anyway -- you realize you'll soon have to Get a Real Job or Go To College or Both and in those days, Be Drafted. A dose of Cthulhu helps put these feelings in perspective.- Howard Waldrop
All good technology should be used to piss off people's parents.
- Neil Gaiman in "Wired"
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Gandhi
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
– Georgia O'keeffe
After the final no there comes a yes. And on that yes the future of the world depends.
- Wallace Stevens
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
- Wilson Mizner
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
-- Edith Ann, [Lily Tomlin] (light bulb moment)
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Derek Curtis Bok
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
- Jerome Seymour Bruner
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
- Mary Pettibone Poole
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
– da vinci
The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
– da vinci
Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so study without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.
– da vinci
