College Quotes and Sayings - Page 2
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it’s very complex, it’s very profound.
- Dennis Prager
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.
- William E. Vaughan
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A college should feel alarmed rather than pleased if it graduates nothing but good citizens. For when the body politic is composed of nothing but submissive individuals, half of its health and all of its vigor have disappeared.
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
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
- John Ciardi
The important thing is the educational experience itself…how to survive it.
If you have a college degree you can be absolutely sure of one thing… You have a college degree.
The purpose of the university is to make students safe for ideas – not ideas safe for students.
Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn’t.
- L.L. Hendren
College professor – someone who talks in other people’s sleep
80% of the final exam will be based on the one lecture you missed and the one book you didn’t read.
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
- Brooks Atkinson
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.
- Louisa May Alcott
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
The freshman girl, oh so shy, sits and watches the sophomore guy. The sophomore guy, his head in a whirl, sits and watches the junior girl. The junior girl, in her red sedan, sits and watches the senior man. The senior man, all hot and wild, secretly loves the freshman girl.
Everyone can pass college, most just don’t feel like it.
College comes and goes like a wind what is left behind is a bunch of memories which you cherish for the rest of your lives – showing it to your relatives, friends, everyone – “These Were My Golden Days. I Was The King Of My Life. Everybody Used To Call Me ‘The Ultimate Rockstar’ .Don’t Miss It And Don’t Ruin It either…Live It All !!!!”
Education is the best money making ritual!
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
Education is not preparation for life, education is life itself.